I am in this campaign up to my eyeballs, my precinct in western WA is semi-rural in a mostly urban District, and my duties as Legislative District Chairman keep me from banging every door.
Fortunately, there's the telephone, and the most robust, well-organized phone contact and data entry interface I have seen in years of field work. That is how I first met my neighbor, Mark Rutherford, and how I heard his story.
When Mark started talking, I could not put the phone down. When he told me about the path he had taken to become an Obama supporter, I wondered if he had written that down. As it happens, he had.
Mark had written a letter that he wanted to distribute to his community of hunters and sport fishermen. Here it is, posted here with his full permission. I hope people will find it as compelling as I have.
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