A recent Politico article about financial reform mentioned AFR’s field operation and talked about how field events hammered home the need for reform.  Click here to read the full article. From the article:

A major Wall Street reform bill that seemed in trouble just a few weeks ago now seems likely to become law, perhaps in a few days.

And if it does, it will be an important addition to the record of accomplishment of a president who as recently as last fall was being mocked on “Saturday Night Live” for achieving “nothing.”

What’s more, he was helped to the 60-vote finish line on the financial regulatory reform bill by Republicans, including the man responsible for the administration’s greatest electoral humiliation so far, Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, as well as Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine.

All were among the objects of grass-roots lobbying over the Independence Day recess by groups such as the progressive coalition Americans for Financial Reform.

For instance, activists and experts gathered outside the offices of Snowe and Collins last week to urge the duo to vote yes. Supporters also used the event to thank Maine House members who supported the legislation when it passed the chamber June 30.

“All these events are thanking the members for their support of Main Street and for holding big banks accountable and urging senators in the state to finish the bill,” said AFR spokeswoman Lauren Weiner. “Thanking House members is a perfect way to show the kind of support the senators will get when they vote for Main Street.”

The coalition did similar events in Delaware, Arkansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington, Weiner said.

During the weeklong recess, AFR did work in 17 states that included sending letters to the editors, meeting with newspaper editorial boards and calling voters and patching them through to their senators. Meanwhile, AFR ally U.S. Public Interest Research Group was organizing events in another seven states, she said.

In Kansas, the group’s affiliates met with clergy and called on them to push their senators to vote for the bill.

And this week, the Iowa affiliate was planning to set up a finish line in Des Moines to urge Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to help reform complete its legislative race, Weiner said. (As of Tuesday afternoon, Grassley remained “undecided.”)