Ok I’m going to keep this one short & sweet because I’ve just spent 12 hours on the phone banks at campaign headquarters and I’m zonked. I went through both batteries on my Treo by 5pm and haven’t checked my email so I haven’t a clue as to what’s happening with the results. I hope all those phone calls paid off – I’ll have to wait until Wednesday morning to find out.
I just wanted to fire up a brief post tonight to talk a little bit about the phone bank today, and the unsung heroes of any campaign – the folks staffing the phone banks.
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No hyper-links or policy papers – no press statements or Fact Hub stuff tonight. That can wait.
As many of you know, I work full time and have two amazing children at home. Hubby works 6 days a week so I’m home with the kids on Saturdays. Sunday’s our one day together as a family each week and after I get breakfast and check the Sunday talking heads shows, I kiss hubby and the kids and head on down to campaign headquarters to talk to voters in upcoming primary states. Phone banking is tiring but its important work. And if it means helping to put Hillary up and over the top in a state then I’ll gladly give up my one day off with hubby and the kids to go in and make a difference.
Now everyone’s probably heard of Hillary’s top advisors, but the folks who help guide the volunteers really should get more of the credit. Some of you fellow Hillary supporters (especially in the DC area) have probably gotten an email or two from the woman who runs the phone bank effort at HQ – her name’s Adrienne Benson. This young woman must run on pure adrenaline (just like Hillary) because every time I’ve gone in – whether it’s on a Sunday afternoon or on a Tuesday when I’ve taken a day off work to help get out the vote on a primary day – Adrienne’s always there. Even today, when I logged in just over 12 hours, she was still urging us on.
Ten pm and there was still an hour left where we could call El Paso, and she was still urging us to keep on keepin’ on. And on an important evening like this, god(dess) help you if you tried to head out before the polls closed or we were done getting our supporters out to the precinct conventions. One lady at our table said good night to us a total of three times - Adrienne talked her into coming back for an hour not once but twice! She left at 9 instead of 7, Adrienne was that convincing regarding the importance of our work.
And she's right - these phone banks and the calls people make using the campaign's online calling tool make a tremendous difference!
So here’s to Adrienne and her dedicated interns, who paced up and down through the room answering questions and handing our calling scripts or other important information - all - day - long. The young people who turn up every day to do all they can to help Hillary make it to the White House are the unsung heroes when it comes to this campaign and I thought I'd recognize them and their amazing work tonight.
Anne
Nate
Russ
Melanie
Sabastian
Liani
Eva
Michael and
Melissa
Keep up the great work gang – I’ll see you next Sunday afternoon!
Ok - can't type much more without massive numbers of typos. I'll just wrap this up by asking you to donate $5 in honor of each of the dedicated folks in that phone bank room.
That's 10 names - $5 each = $50.00.
DONATE NOW!
Whattya say?!