I live in Eric Cantor's district. (AKA, as the Boll Weevil's district). I also live in a predominently African American neighborhood. Eric Cantor's opponent is Rick Waugh. I know little about Rick Waugh. He used to be a social worker-translation to my mind, he cares about people. That is all I need to know. I also know I'm on a Don Quoxite "tilting at windmills" mission Saturday morning. I'm going to knock on doors. This is Virginia. Rick Waugh will lose. It is of no import to me Saturday morning. What follows is my mission.
It pisses me off to the highest heavens that "the haves" think the "have nots" give not a wit about mid-term elections! That ROYALLY angers me. My mission, as a beautiful white girl with an extremely friendly black dog that all the neighborhood children know and love - in other words as a HIGHLY visible member of my community-and totally fearless person that I am - I want every last person in my neighborhood that came out and voted for Obama in 2008 to realize that the power of each of their individual votes counts MAJOR and is needed now in the mid-terms. There are many individuals in my neighborhood that already get it...but there are those who are so involved in the "surviving" of the just getting by in my working class neighborhood that they will just go on with their lives and not vote on Nov. 2. I live in Richmond VA - the city that celebrates their Confederate Soldiers on a gorgeous street. Tom Robbins went to school here. His toast to the backwardness of Richmond VA is a toast to Monument Avenue as " the street for dead soldiers for a lost cause". This mentality is alive and well....yikes, Gov. McDonnell and Ken Cucinelli. YIKES!
So I want to spread a little YIKES on Saturday morning. Rick will not win. But to me that is not the point. I'm gonna knock on doors and ask people to have Obama's back. I want everyone I speak to to realize that voting is important. That is the #1 talking point. I happen to love Obama. Love. I will not lie down and let the corporations take over Democracy. I won't do it. I will not go quietly.