ProgressNow Nevada Launch Press Release

For Immediate Release
January 29, 2009
Contact: Erin Neff 702-401-7959
erin@progressnownevada.org

ProgressNow Nevada Launches Online Progressive Organization

ProgressNow Nevada, a new nonpartisan organization established to push progressive policy agendas, announces the launch of its website -- http://www.progressnownevada.org

The organization combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting media response. ProgressNow Nevada will work to engage citizens from across the state on issues of immediate concern. The timing couldn't be more perfect as two of Nevada's congressional delegates, Rep. Dean Heller and Sen. John Ensign, continue to obstruct major funding to help lift Nevada out of the current economic crisis.

ProgressNow Nevada's community will become a campaign that never stops, pressuring public officials to enact good public policy and pushing back against poorly devised agendas, such as Gov. Jim Gibbons' call to slash state worker and teacher pay and kill our colleges and schools with his budget cuts.

In addition to serving as a progressive organization to help push issues and agendas, ProgressNow Nevada will also serve as a marketing agency for the entire progressive community, from labor and environmental groups, to social service providers, educators and activists. The goal is to build a stronger movement in a state that proved last November it welcomes progressive solutions.

ProgressNow Nevada is operated by former journalist Erin Neff. Neff spent the past decade covering politics for both the Las Vegas Sun and Review-Journal newspapers. She will blog on the new site.

"This website will help keep progressive energy building from the election," Neff said. "Ultimately a vast progressive community, linked and organized online, can have sweeping impact on local, state and national policy."

ProgressNow Nevada is based on a national model of success which began with Progress Now Colorado and is now operating in 11 other states.