Sam Adams Alliance Launches the Sammies
Prizes totaling $35,000 will be awarded to outstanding citizen leaders.
CHICAGO - The Sam Adams Alliance announces “The Sammies,” a series of awards for outstanding citizen leadership and creativity. Cash prizes totaling $35,000 will be awarded to citizen leaders who are making effective change for more accountable and transparent government.“We’re pleased to have this opportunity to recognize ‘Modern-Day Sam Adamses’ – the citizen leaders who are working hard to promote and defend liberty,” said Bob Costello, president of The Sam Adams Alliance. “We’re looking forward to learning more about local efforts and the creative ways people spread the word on important issues like government accountability and transparency.”
“The Sammies” include awards for citizen campaigns, creative events, blogging, and videos. The program seeks to publicize recent efforts that may not have received adequate attention, and to encourage more people to stand up for good government practices in their communities.
The Sam Adams Alliance intends to promote “The Sammies” to free-market and government accountability and transparency organizations nationwide, as well as to university film departments, where students may be interested in submitting short video projects that highlight issues of liberty at the local and state level.
All submissions are due by December 7, 2007, and the winners will be showcased at an event in Chicago on December 17, 2007, where they will be presented with golden colored Sam Adams bobbleheads, or “Sammies.”
Please visit www.samadamsalliance.org for more details and the contest guidelines, and to see other Modern-Day Sam Adamses that the Sam Adams Alliance has highlighted in the past.
For additional questions, please contact Sarah Crabtree at sarah@samadamsalliance.org or 312-920-0080.
The Sam Adams Alliance strives to educate and inform citizens about the important political issues necessary to maintaining a free society, including government accountability, government transparency, property rights protection, fiscal responsibility, free speech, and citizen initiative and referendum rights.
