Hi everyone, I'm Michael. This is an open thread meant to provide all the
Roots Project people from Virginia with a way of saying hello without clogging everyone's inboxes with one-line emails. Anyone else who wants to say hello can do that too. So please, leave a comment, introduce yourself, let us know about any particular skills or talents you might have, experiences in politics, or whatever.
As I see it, this group is quite an amorphous blob of potential energy, and it would be nice to start hammering out what sort of amorphous blob we would like to be. As for introductions, I'll go first.
As I said, I'm Michael. I am a 3rd year college student at UVA, studying American Politics (go figure). I grew up here in Charlottesville and I'm damn proud of it. I didn't get up at 8 am, I'm still up at 8am. I volunteer for
Al Weed in Virginia's
5th congressional district and I write a
blog about it. I can't think of any particularly relevant skills I have, except I know my way around the constitution, I'm pretty good with computers, and I'm better than all my room mates at looking things up on the internet, although I'm sure many of you could say just the same thing. Along with my three room mates I live with two ferrets, and they're not very good at looking things up on the internet either.
Your turn...