Jay, Jill and I would stop at the Aurora office, pick up our walk packets and review them over coffee at Starbucks. We’d decide to split packets even/odd, separate sheets out of packets and hit individual streets, or to take one walk packet per canvasser. It always depends on the shape of the streets and [...]
Jill and I got into Denver airport the afternoon of Halloween 2008. We stopped for a smoke, a beer and the best spinach and artichoke dip in the whole, wide world. Cheers! We’re in the battleground.
We went back to the Denver airport later to pick up Jay, our Northern California Out-of-State Travel Director. (We’re formally [...]
This conservative gentleman joined the Sunnyvale for Obama mailing list a while back… from Florida! After that we were regaled with tales of convincing conservative friends and acquaintances to consider voting for Senator Obama. This guy was good
He sent this big beautiful thank you letter to the list the other day, and I [...]
Jane and I worked in Aurora, CO today, just south of Denver, CO (10 mins.). We received a well-prepared and organized walk packet, considered large, from very professional staff. We assumed we could tackle a large packet and did. We knocked it out of the park: 134 knocks, 30 contacts, and verified new residents (not [...]
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my law-enforcement officers. Imagine my glee as I headed to the breakfast area of our hotel (in my pajamas) to find 20-ish of the Treasury Department’s officers eating their breakfast. We’d see them later at the security check-in point.
Jane and I headed to the park, following [...]
I traveled to Reno, NV several times prior to and for the caucus. The Carson City trip was my third in the general election. Every time I went to Nevada I could see the decline in the economy. This trip report of canvassing in Carson City, NV is both sad and heartening.
Now that the general [...]
Traveling for Obama-Biden ‘08
Due to the huge success of our Northern-California partnership with Nevada, we’ve been asked to do more: COLORADO!
Travel volunteers, go to: http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/oosco to sign up for Colorado travel. Supporter housing is available on a first-come, first-served basis. The carpool link will be activated soon. Colorado has a real need for Veterans and [...]
Here are some lessons and memories from my trip to Reno one weekend on the campaign:
The volunteer who put me up for the night Saturday thanked me for my volunteerism and said, “Thank God you’re doing this.”
The excitement of campaigning will power you a long way, but you really should get more than four hours [...]
