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2009-11-12 14:37:03

Monte N Letourneau

August 20, 2008

Re: Fund Raising Assistant for Green Party US

Esteemed Committee Being,
I was very pleased to see the email announcing the opening of the Fund Raising Assistant position. I feel both that I am an excellent candidate for the position and that it is an excellent fit for my own professional growth and personal fulfillment.
I have had a fair amount of experience at using the phone in a professional manner, much of which there is little to be proud of, and no room for in my resume.
As a youth, my parents ran a fund raising subcontracting business out of our home, so from an early age I was used to answering the phone and speaking in a professional manner.
One of the first jobs I ever had was as a survey taker for Pert Survey Research, doing market research. For a very short while soon after that i had a job selling substandard machine shop supplies at exorbitant prices, this is where I learned that it matters very much to me that my work be constructive and helpful to others.
During the 80′s I also had a brief stint as a canvasser for Wisconsin Action Coalition and Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, these were both cut short by problems with my knees due to injuries sustained late in my teenage years.
I worked for the campaign of Peter Blewett (District 7 and President of the Milwaukee School Board) during his last re-election, using the state of the art phone banking system of the SEIU.
Later that same year I was involved in the design, performance, and analysis of a poll on the attitudes of Wisconsinites to unemployment and the minimum wage for the class POL SCI 392 Survey Research, at UW Milwaukee.
Working for Green issues is something that I have sought to do for most of my life, and I would love to have an opportunity to begin to focus my career upon it.
In many contexts I have discovered that I enjoy serving others, working with others, and working with the public. As I have yet to be employed in a context where I get to enjoy both serving well, and working constructively with, the public, I look forward to being considered a good fit for this position.
Sincerely yours,
Monte N. Letourneau

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