2002 AAPC Pollie Award Winners

Category Title Client or Campaign Firm or Individual Submitting Entry Place
Public Affairs Team of the Year Covering Kids RWJ Covering Kids GMMB First Place
Computer Technology Product of the Year Grassroots Campaigning with Palm Pilots No on 695, OK AFL-CIO Gail Tuzzulo & Associates First Place
Computer Technology Product of the Year Focus Group CDs Yes on 272 Hamilton, Beattie, & Staff First Place
National Public Affairs Campaign Covering Kids Campaign RWJ Covering Kids GMMB First Place
State Public Affairs Campaign Your Choices Shape Their Chances California Children and Families Commission GMMB First Place
Regional Public Affairs Campaign It's What You Know LCCC Enrollment Winning Directions First Place
Bilingual/Foreign Language Public Affairs Campaign "Yes on 272" "Yes on 272" Hamilton, Beattie, & Staff; Barretto Cunningham May Pudley & Malloy; Shrum Devine & Donilon First Place
Direct Mail-State Grassroots Response Sweet Talk NARAL Foundation Terris & Barnes First Place
Direct Mail - Local Grassroots Response Save Gaviota Sierra Club Crotty Consulting, Inc. First Place
Direct Mail - Local Grassroots Response Some People Don't Have to Worry Wal Mart Winning Directions First Place
Direct Mail-National Membership Campaign "First Pets and Their Families" 2001 Calendar Democratic National Committee Adams, Hussey, and Associates First Place
Direct Mail-National Membership Campaign Truth About Gun Owners (TAG) Poll - Annual Appeal National Rifle Association of America PM Consulting Corporation First Place
Direct Mail - State Membership Campaign Small Minority Washington Ceasefire GSM/Mercury First Place
Direct Mail-Local Membership Campaign Your Dues, Your Voice Newly Elected President of ILWU Winning Directions First Place
Direct Mail - State Initiative/Referendum Senior Voter Washington Council of Senior Citizens GSM/Mercury First Place
Direct Mail - Local Initiative/Referendum Under Pressure Yes On A/Santa Rosa Jr. College Terris & Barnes First Place
Print/Graphics - Logo Scream - No on Proposition 1, Municipal Utility District No on Prop 1, Coalition to Stop the $3 Billion Bill Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners / Storefront Political Media First Place
Print/Graphics - Billboard Transit Knot Straphangers Campaign Robbett Advocacy Media First Place
Print/Graphics - Signs Vote Sign Secretary of State, California McNally Temple Associates, Inc. First Place
Print/Graphics - Non Mail National Issue Brochure Mississippi River Midwest Area River Coalition 2000 The Public Response Group, Inc. First Place
Print/Graphics - Non Mail State Issue Brochure Greetings From Hinkley Consumer Attorneys of California Shelly Sullivan Public Relations & Media Consulting First Place
Print/Graphics - National Newspaper Ad "You Shouldn't Have to Be a Special Agent" Forest Serviceship Council MacWilliams Robinson and Partners First Place
Print/Graphics - State Newspaper Ad We've Got the Power Anchorage Economic Development Corporation Edmonds Hackney and Associates First Place
Print/Graphics - Local Newspaper Ad Peace Mid-Hudson Islamic Association Mission Control, LLC First Place
Radio - State Grassroots Marriage Campaign for California's Family JC-Evans Communications First Place
Radio - National Public Affairs "Data" Natural Resources Defense Council MacWilliams Robinson and Partners First Place
Radio - State Public Affairs Smoking California Children and Families Commission GMMB First Place
Radio - Bilingual/Foreign Language Public Affairs Early Childhood-Every (in Korean) California Children and Families Commission GMMB First Place
Television - National Grassroots "No Plan" Arctic Coalition MacWilliams Robinson and Partners First Place
Television - State Grassroots New Jersey Governor Video Voters Guide AARP Paul J. Pelletier First Place
Television - National Public Affairs Ransom AT&T, Voices for Choices Joe Slade White and Company First Place
Television - State Public Affairs Premie California Children and Families Commission GMMB First Place
Television - Local Public Affairs Campground Pew Wilderness Center North Woods Advertising First Place
Television-Bilingual/Foreign Language Public Affairs Whirlwind (in Spanish) California Children and Families Commission GMMB First Place
Television  - State Initiative/Referendum Freedom of Speech Right to Work for Oklahomans McCarthy Marcus Hennings, Ltd. First Place
Television - Local Initiative/Referendum Ducks Billings Right-of-Way The Thompson Group First Place
Technology - National Grassroots Website www.nraila.org National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action New Media Communications, Inc. First Place
Technology - National Public Affaris Website National Clearing House For Professions In Special Education NCPSE The Bivings Group First Place
Technology - Internet Ad Roll Back the Beer Tax Anheuser-Busch Companies Mindshare Internet Campaigns First Place
Technology - Flash Animation The Justice Project Death Penalty Flash The Justice Project Issue Dynamics, Inc. First Place
Technology - Best Overall Use of Internet ActivistCash.com The Center for Consumer Freedom Berman & Company First Place
Technology - Local Initiative/Referendum Website www.romebaseball.com Committee to Bring Professional Baseball to Rome GA electyou.com First Place
Phones - National Grassroots Automated Outbound Carson Town Hall Meetings Congressman Brad Carson Winning Connections First Place
Phone - State and Local Automated Outbound Former Sheriff Art Brandwood for Doug LaMalfa Friends of Doug LaMalfa Dane & Associates First Place
Phones - National Grassroots Live Outbound Families USA Families USA Winning Connections First Place
Phones - State and Local Grassroots Live Outbound River Fields Public Hearing River Fields Executive Communications First Place
Phones - Local Initiative/Referendum McHenry County Open Spaces Trust for Public Land Winning Connections First Place
Phones - Local Initiative/Referendum Toledo Charter Funk Wetke Skunda Marketing (Yes on Issue 1) Winning Connections First Place
SWC Direct Mail - Statewide Survivor Scratch-Off Massachusetts Teachers Association Crounse Malchow Schlackman & Hoppey First Place
SWC Direct Mail - Local Lessons Booklet Bloom for Congress Crounse Malchow Schlackman & Hoppey First Place
SWC Radio - Local County Supervisor Troy Leslie for Senate JohnsonClark Associates First Place
SWC Television - National Grow Up Nader 2000 North Woods Advertising First Place
SWC Television - Statewide "L.A. Confidential" No on Proposition 223 JohnsonClark Associates First Place
SWC Television - Statewide Lloyd Bentson Tribute Video Texas Democratic Party Strother Duffy Strother First Place
SWC Television - Local An American Hero - The Story of Congressman John Lewis John Lewis for Congress Strother Duffy Strother First Place
Technology - National Public Affaris Website   Chicago Kent College of Law Electionmall, Inc. First Place
Direct Mail-State Grassroots Response Billboard Capital of the World Save Our Scenery Winning Directions Second Place
Direct Mail-National Membership Campaign Limited Edition Millenium Card - Membership Renewal National Rifle Association of America PM Consulting Corporation Second Place
Direct Mail - State Membership Campaign Save Our Schools Packet Nevada State Education Association Gail Tuzzulo & Associates Second Place
Direct Mail - Local Initiative/Referendum Crystal Clear Arapahoe Water Authority Welchert & Britz Second Place
Print/Graphics - Logo First Woman President Logo First Woman President, Inc. Robbett Advocacy Media Second Place
Print/Graphics - Billboard Vote Billboard Secretary of State, California McNally Temple Associates, Inc. Second Place
Print/Graphics - Non Mail National Issue Brochure Take Heart 2000 American Heart Association BatesNeimand, Inc. Second Place
Print/Graphics - Non Mail State Issue Brochure Conservation Tray Liner Seattle City Light The Connections Group, Inc. Second Place
Print/Graphics - National Newspaper Ad Ransom Voices for Choices GSM/Mercury Second Place
Print/Graphics - State Newspaper Ad Cut In Half Connect Michigan The Sterling Corporation Second Place
Print/Graphics - Local Newspaper Ad Stroke American Heart Association BatesNeimand, Inc. Second Place
Radio - State Grassroots "Everywhere" Dogwood Alliance MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Second Place
Radio - State Public Affairs "Now It's PCB's" Sierra Club of New York MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Second Place
Radio - State Public Affairs Ho, Ho, Ho California Republican Party McNally Temple Associates, Inc. Second Place
Television - National Public Affairs Mailbox AT&T, Voices for Choices Joe Slade White and Company Second Place
Television - State Public Affairs Trucks Marborg Davies - Katrina Carl Second Place
Television-Bilingual/Foreign Language Public Affairs Laundry (in Korean) California Children and Families Commission GMMB Second Place
Television - Local Initiative/Referendum Punch Broward Citizens for Good Government GMMB Second Place
Technology - National Grassroots Website The Iceberg Theory of Organizational Websites New Century Project eMoe.net,  Inc./ Greg Tranqmoe Second Place
Technology - National Grassroots Website hrc.org Human Rights Campaign Issue Dynamics, Inc. Second Place
Technology - State and Local Grassroots Website www.jobkillers.org Coalition for California Jobs Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli Second Place
Technology - National Public Affaris Website "Sex, Etc." Rutgers University, Network For Family Life Education Global Strategy Group, Inc. Second Place
Technology - National Public Affaris Website BSA Security - http://www.bsa.org/security Business Software Alliance Mindshare Internet Campaigns Second Place
Technology - State and Local Public Affairs Website SF VoteWatch.com Committee On Jobs Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners / Storefront Political Media Second Place
Technology - Best Overall Use of Internet AnesthesiaSafety.Net American Society of Anesthesiologists e-advocates, LLC Second Place
Phones - National Grassroots Live Outbound "HR2323 - Neet" Americans for Balanced Energy Choices Executive Communications Second Place
Phones - Local Initiative/Referendum Worthington School Board Worthington School Board Winning Connections Second Place
SWC Direct Mail - Local Gold Medal Friends of Carolyn McCarthy for Congress Crounse Malchow Schlackman & Hoppey Second Place
SWC Television - National Record - Bush National Rifle Association Edmonds Hackney and Associates Second Place
SWC Television - Statewide Dartboard Scott Shackleton Victory Committee The Sterling Corporation Second Place
SWC Television - Local Up From the Fields Simon Salinas for State Assembly Strother Duffy Strother Second Place
Direct Mail-State Grassroots Response Ingredients American Heart Association BatesNeimand, Inc. Third Place
Direct Mail-National Membership Campaign Silent NARAL Foundation Terris & Barnes Third Place
Direct Mail - State Membership Campaign Breath League of Conservation Voters Ed Fund Terris & Barnes Third Place
Direct Mail - Local Initiative/Referendum Babe Ruth Backin' Baseball Committee Crounse Malchow Schlackman & Hoppey Third Place
Print/Graphics - Non Mail State Issue Brochure Guide to California Medicare HMO's California HealthCare Foundation GMMB Third Place
Print/Graphics - National Newspaper Ad Not As You Think The Center for Consumer Freedom Berman & Company Third Place
Print/Graphics - State Newspaper Ad Baby Nebraskans for Fair Competition The Thompson Group Third Place
Print/Graphics - Local Newspaper Ad Pearl Harbor Coalition to Protect Americans Now McCarthy Marcus Hennings, Ltd. Third Place
Television - National Public Affairs "Table" SEIU MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Third Place
Television - State Public Affairs "Magazine" Sierra Club of New York MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Third Place
Television - Local Initiative/Referendum Guinea Pigs - No on Proposition 1, Municipal Utility District No on Prop 1, Coalition to Stop the $3 Billion Bill Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners / Storefront Political Media Third Place
Technology - National Grassroots Website www.freedombrigade.com Freedom Brigade New Media Communications, Inc. Third Place
Technology - Best Overall Use of Internet BCBSHealthIssues.com Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Issue Dynamics, Inc. Third Place
Direct Mail-State Grassroots Response Save Our Schools "SOS" Nevada State Education Association Gail Tuzzulo & Associates Honorable Mention
Direct Mail - Local Grassroots Response Save Gaviota Sierra Club Crotty Consulting, Inc. Honorable Mention
Direct Mail - Local Grassroots Response It's an Even Better Idea Now Los Angeles to Pasadena Metro Construction Authority The MWW Group Honorable Mention
Direct Mail-National Membership Campaign "Springtime on Capitol Hill" Commemorative Print Democratic National Committee Adams, Hussey, and Associates Honorable Mention
Direct Mail - State Membership Campaign Putting Both Candidates to the Test AFL-CIO Winning Directions Honorable Mention
Direct Mail - Local Initiative/Referendum Our Valley Douglas County Agriculture and Open Space Preservation Committee BatesNeimand, Inc. Honorable Mention
Direct Mail - Bilingual/Multilingual Grassroots/Initiative/Referendum Lakota Sierra Club West River Office GSM/Mercury Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Logo Friends of Aviation Friendly Skies Coalition Edmonds Hackney and Associates Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Logo U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Signs Proud to Serve You - Golden Gate Restaurant Association Golden Gate Restaurant Association Barnes, Mosher, Whitehurst, Lauter & Partners / Storefront Political Media Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Signs ANWR Arctic Power Edmonds Hackney and Associates Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Non Mail State Issue Brochure Long Island: Here Today, Here Tomorrow The Nature Conservancy of Long Island BatesNeimand, Inc. Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Non Mail Local Issue Brochure Save Gaviota Sierra Club Crotty Consulting, Inc. Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Non Mail Local Issue Brochure Last Call Arlington Association, Inc. Emmons & Company, Inc. Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - National Newspaper Ad Little House Voices for Choices GSM/Mercury Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - State Newspaper Ad Justice Civil Justice Association of California Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli Honorable Mention
Print/Graphics - Local Newspaper Ad It's Time Alaskans for Better Access Edmonds Hackney and Associates Honorable Mention
Radio - National Grassroots "Bullshop" The Wilderness Society MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Honorable Mention
Radio - Local Grassroots "Got That Right" The Wilderness Society MacWilliams Robinson and Partners Honorable Mention
Radio - Local Public Affairs Thaddeus, Toni, Charles JCC Harrah's New Orleans Casino APCO Worldwide Honorable Mention
Radio - Local Initiative/Referendum Bureaucrats NO on F&I (San Francisco, November 2001) Solem & Associates Honorable Mention
Television - National Grassroots Hunting Heritage National Rifle Association Edmonds Hackney and Associates Honorable Mention
Television - National Public Affairs Virtual Tour National Education Association Laguens, Hamburger, Stone Honorable Mention
Television - National Public Affairs One Person Coalition to Protect America's Health Care McCarthy Marcus Hennings, Ltd. Honorable Mention
Television - State Public Affairs Laundry (in English) California Children and Families Commission GMMB Honorable Mention
Television - State Public Affairs "Homeboy" Choices for Youth Campaign / California Wellness Foundation Mark Armour, armourMedia, Inc. Honorable Mention
Television - Local Public Affairs The Way We See Things Pacific Lumber Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli Honorable Mention
Television - Non Broadcast Grassroots Emergency March For Women's Lives National Organization for Women Eighteenth Street Media Honorable Mention
Earned Media  -Overall Earned Media Covering Kids RWJ Covering Kids GMMB Honorable Mention
Earned Media - State and Local Media Kit What Else is Hidden From California Consumers? Consumer Attorneys of California Shelly Sullivan Public Relations & Media Consulting Honorable Mention
Earned Media - Local Print News First Vote to Secede Valley Vote Blair - Biggs Campaigns Honorable Mention
Technology - National Grassroots Website Oregon Death with Dignity Website Oregon Death with Dignity BatesNeimand, Inc. Honorable Mention
Technology - National Grassroots Website www.affect.vcita.com Americans for Fair Electronic Commerce Transactions Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli Honorable Mention
Technology - Local Initiative/Referendum Website Ourkidscount.net Group Supporting Initiative 100 - Denver, Colorado Mindshare Internet Campaigns and Winning Connections Honorable Mention
Phones - Membership Recruitment Join SEIU Today SEIU Winning Connections Honorable Mention
Phones - National Grassroots Automated Inbound PNTR ACLI Americna Council fo Life Insureres Executive Communications Honorable Mention
Phones - National Grassroots Automated Outbound NARAL Anti Ashcroft NARAL Winning Connections Honorable Mention
Phones - State and Local Grassroots Live Outbound Tenaska Fluvannah Tenaska Executive Communications Honorable Mention
Phones - Bilingual/Foreign Language Live NYC Smoking Ban New York Concessions Coalition Executive Communications Honorable Mention
Phones - Statewide Initiative/ Referendum Yes on I775 Washingtonians for Homecare Winning Connections Honorable Mention
SWC Direct Mail - National "The Future Never Happened" Fundraising Effort Democratic National Committee Adams, Hussey, and Associates Honorable Mention
SWC Direct Mail - Local Don't Pass Up the Vote Soboroff for L.A. Mayor Blair - Biggs Campaigns Honorable Mention
SWC Direct Mail - Local Gasp Laura Gene Middaugh for King County Superior Court Moxie Media, Inc. Honorable Mention
SWC Radio - National Vote Latino National Public Service Annoucement Strother Duffy Strother Honorable Mention
SWC Radio - Statewide Wright Direction Tommy Wright for Virginia Senate The Sterling Corporation Honorable Mention
SWC Radio - Local Re-elect Judge John Coy Judge John Coy Campaign '94 Emmons & Company, Inc. Honorable Mention