WIN DELIVERS VOTES TO PUT NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST
TURNOUT RISES IN WIN PRECINCTS; CITY-WIDE TURNOUT FLAT
Washington Interfaith Network’s (WIN) unprecedented, non-partisan Vote Neighborhoods First
Get-Out-The-Vote effort during the 2006 DC Primary increased voter turnout an average of
10.3% compared to 2002 in 27 target precincts--even as city-wide turnout remained stagnant
from 2002 levels. Some WIN precincts increased as much as 30%, with particularly strong gains
in historically low turnout precincts in lower-income neighborhoods in Wards 1, 2, 6, 7, & 8,
including Northwest #1, Benning Terrace, Columbia Heights, Clay Terrace, Washington
Highlands, and Deanwood Heights. Contact WIN at 202-518-0815 for detailed precinct turnout
data.“
DC voters endorsed WIN’s Vote Neighborhoods First Agenda and increased their turnout. They
have a vision for this city that puts people and neighborhoods before downtown development
and entertainment districts. These results confirm WIN’s power to hold the victorious candidates
for DC Mayor and Council accountable for their pledges to implement WIN’s Vote
Neighborhoods First Agenda,” said Rev. Joseph Daniels, WIN Clergy Leader and
Senior Pastor of Emory United Methodist Church in Ward # 4.
This summer, DC Mayoral and Council At-Large candidates committed before 1,000 WIN
leaders to:
• Provide $ 1 Billion For Neighborhood Revitalization, in part through linking Anacostia
Waterfront Development projects to neighborhoods;
• Build/Preserve 14,000 affordable housing units in 4 years, including implementing fully the
funding and production recommendations of the DC Affordable Housing Strategy Task Force
and constructing 5,000 Nehemiah Homeownership units (affordable to persons earning
$20,00-$75,000) on undeveloped public land;
• Create a new $350 million dedicated revenue stream for Youth Investment to rebuild
recreation centers, libraries, and fund fully athletics and extracurricular activities in DC schools.
“The message is clear from Deanwood Heights, Benning Terrace, Washington Highlands,
Brightwood, Columbia Heights, and beyond to the victorious candidates: Keep your promises to
put Neighborhoods First or face WIN’s power at election time. ‘Take it from the top’: Invest in
recreation centers, schools, affordable housing, and jobs first.” said Rev. Anthony Minter, WIN
Clergy Leader and Pastor, First Rock Baptist Church in Ward # 7.
WIN organized 400 volunteers to go door-to-door this summer, educating voters across the city
about WIN’s Vote Neighborhoods First election agenda. WIN, then, sponsored a week-long
phone bank and deployed more than 200 volunteers on Election Day, September 12th, to Get-
Out-The-Vote to put Neighborhoods First.
Since 2002, WIN has pushed its Neighborhoods First Agenda, winning a $450 million Baseball
Community Benefits Fund to rebuild neighborhood schools, libraries, recreation centers,
commercial districts, community facilities, and affordable housing as well as a $100 million
Neighborhood Investment Fund to revitalize 12 target neighborhoods across the city. In addition,
the winning candidates in 2004 and 2006 ran on WIN’s Neighborhoods First theme and
defeated long-time incumbents, thereby changing the political landscape and priorities in DC.
WIN is a city-wide, multi-racial, multi-faith, non-partisan citizens organization with 48
congregation, union, and community organization members representing 25,000 DC families.
Since 2003, WIN has built 150 Nehemiah townhomes for sale to first time homebuyers, secured
$12.5 million in repairs to DC schools, forced the city require contractors receiving city subsidies
to hire and train DC residents for living wage jobs in the construction trades, and pressured US
HUD to forestall foreclosure on 1,000 units of Section 8 housing. WIN is affiliated with the
Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). Founded by the late Saul Alinsky, the IAF is the oldest and
largest community-organizing network in the US. Other IAF affiliates in the DC Metro area are:
Action in Montgomery (AIM), Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), People
Acting Together in Howard (PATH), and Northern Virginia Clergy Sponsors.
WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK
1226 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 518-0815
www.windc-iaf.org
www.industrialareasfoundation.org
Contacts: Rev. Joseph Daniels, WIN Clergy Leader, 202-723-3130; Rev. Anthony Minter, WIN
Clergy
Leader, 202-583-3200; Martin P. Trimble WIN Lead Organizer 202-518-0815
TURNOUT RISES IN WIN PRECINCTS; CITY-WIDE TURNOUT FLAT
Washington Interfaith Network’s (WIN) unprecedented, non-partisan Vote Neighborhoods First
Get-Out-The-Vote effort during the 2006 DC Primary increased voter turnout an average of
10.3% compared to 2002 in 27 target precincts--even as city-wide turnout remained stagnant
from 2002 levels. Some WIN precincts increased as much as 30%, with particularly strong gains
in historically low turnout precincts in lower-income neighborhoods in Wards 1, 2, 6, 7, & 8,
including Northwest #1, Benning Terrace, Columbia Heights, Clay Terrace, Washington
Highlands, and Deanwood Heights. Contact WIN at 202-518-0815 for detailed precinct turnout
data.“
DC voters endorsed WIN’s Vote Neighborhoods First Agenda and increased their turnout. They
have a vision for this city that puts people and neighborhoods before downtown development
and entertainment districts. These results confirm WIN’s power to hold the victorious candidates
for DC Mayor and Council accountable for their pledges to implement WIN’s Vote
Neighborhoods First Agenda,” said Rev. Joseph Daniels, WIN Clergy Leader and
Senior Pastor of Emory United Methodist Church in Ward # 4.
This summer, DC Mayoral and Council At-Large candidates committed before 1,000 WIN
leaders to:
• Provide $ 1 Billion For Neighborhood Revitalization, in part through linking Anacostia
Waterfront Development projects to neighborhoods;
• Build/Preserve 14,000 affordable housing units in 4 years, including implementing fully the
funding and production recommendations of the DC Affordable Housing Strategy Task Force
and constructing 5,000 Nehemiah Homeownership units (affordable to persons earning
$20,00-$75,000) on undeveloped public land;
• Create a new $350 million dedicated revenue stream for Youth Investment to rebuild
recreation centers, libraries, and fund fully athletics and extracurricular activities in DC schools.
“The message is clear from Deanwood Heights, Benning Terrace, Washington Highlands,
Brightwood, Columbia Heights, and beyond to the victorious candidates: Keep your promises to
put Neighborhoods First or face WIN’s power at election time. ‘Take it from the top’: Invest in
recreation centers, schools, affordable housing, and jobs first.” said Rev. Anthony Minter, WIN
Clergy Leader and Pastor, First Rock Baptist Church in Ward # 7.
WIN organized 400 volunteers to go door-to-door this summer, educating voters across the city
about WIN’s Vote Neighborhoods First election agenda. WIN, then, sponsored a week-long
phone bank and deployed more than 200 volunteers on Election Day, September 12th, to Get-
Out-The-Vote to put Neighborhoods First.
Since 2002, WIN has pushed its Neighborhoods First Agenda, winning a $450 million Baseball
Community Benefits Fund to rebuild neighborhood schools, libraries, recreation centers,
commercial districts, community facilities, and affordable housing as well as a $100 million
Neighborhood Investment Fund to revitalize 12 target neighborhoods across the city. In addition,
the winning candidates in 2004 and 2006 ran on WIN’s Neighborhoods First theme and
defeated long-time incumbents, thereby changing the political landscape and priorities in DC.
WIN is a city-wide, multi-racial, multi-faith, non-partisan citizens organization with 48
congregation, union, and community organization members representing 25,000 DC families.
Since 2003, WIN has built 150 Nehemiah townhomes for sale to first time homebuyers, secured
$12.5 million in repairs to DC schools, forced the city require contractors receiving city subsidies
to hire and train DC residents for living wage jobs in the construction trades, and pressured US
HUD to forestall foreclosure on 1,000 units of Section 8 housing. WIN is affiliated with the
Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). Founded by the late Saul Alinsky, the IAF is the oldest and
largest community-organizing network in the US. Other IAF affiliates in the DC Metro area are:
Action in Montgomery (AIM), Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), People
Acting Together in Howard (PATH), and Northern Virginia Clergy Sponsors.
WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK
1226 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 518-0815
www.windc-iaf.org
www.industrialareasfoundation.org
Contacts: Rev. Joseph Daniels, WIN Clergy Leader, 202-723-3130; Rev. Anthony Minter, WIN
Clergy
Leader, 202-583-3200; Martin P. Trimble WIN Lead Organizer 202-518-0815
FBCO in the News
September 20, 2006
September 20, 2006