We knew in advance that we’d staff the Michelle Obama event and it’s one of those things you keep to yourself until the event. Even now, my thanks go to those who got us on board, but I won’t mention the names. Like everything else in the Obama-Biden campaign, the events are run seamlessly.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

     Wow, this place is REALLY buzzing!  Volunteers wall-to-wall, but still room for people to squeeze in and enjoy the excitement.  Check out the pics below–some long-time Sunnyvale area volunteers here, as well as new faces from our recent call center efforts in Sunnyvale. 
     We’re calling Obama supporters in CO right now to make sure they [...]