Sunshine Campaign Coordinators Start Recruiting

The first of the Sunshine Week 2008 coordinators are starting their work, recruiting their colleagues and getting the Sunshine Campaign off to a great start.

The Sunshine Campaign is the main project of Sunshine Week 2008. While the campaign will run through the 2008 elections, Sunshine Week 2008 will be observed March 16-22.

The goal of the Sunshine Campaign is to make open government a must-address campaign issue for candidates running for president to local city council. We are encouraging journalists and citizens to ask every candidate for public office to articulate his or her positions on open government and Freedom of Information.

As we collect this information from our research and from what participants send us, it will go into an online database of statements, positions, votes and views across a variety of issues that we expect to launch later this fall.

In conjunction with that, the Sunshine Week Web site — itself to soon sport a new look — will offer suggested questions for candidates, information about the issues, Web ads featuring our "spokesmammals," and other resources that can be used by anyone who wants to participate.

More about the project will be announced soon, but meanwhile, if you'd like to get involved, please contact one of the regional, state or specialty coordinators listed here.