Are you concerned about the future of rural America?
Are you interested in politics?
Are you concerned about the stability of electric rates?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Eastern Illini’s Grassroots Advocacy Program (GAP) is for you!
Help us fill the GAP in getting our unique rural cooperative message to our local, state and federal legislators.
“Grassroots” refers to electric cooperative activists – directors, managers, employees and member/owners – who take an active role in the political process to protect their co-op from harmful legislation and regulation, as well as to promote the value of co-op ownership to their legislators.
Electric cooperatives have cultivated a reputation on Capitol Hill as a “grassroots” organization. Legislators know that electric co-op member-owners actively get involved by writing, calling and e-mailing their legislators to have their voice heard in the political process. Grassroots advocates speaking with the same voice makes a difference on Capitol Hill.