Good morning!
This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread where we try to get together every Saturday morning around eleven, and then drift in and out throughout the day. We hope this group serves to reinvigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who these people are that we stand with, work with, and share with in the political process. We hope, through this community, that we can do a better job of leveraging our orange passion for progressive politics to help elect more and better Democrats.
If you would like to host a weekly open thread, please let us know.
If you haven't done so yet, please send your RSVP's and Maybe's for our October 19 meetup to Randall (randallt) so he can add them to the list in the "New Day" diaries. And it's ok to go ahead and send him a Maybe, as you can always upgrade to RSVP once you get all that other stuff erased from your calendar.
Randall and I have started working on an idea for a DKos Asheville project; voter registration. Inspired by Reverend Barber at Asheville's Mountain Moral Monday this past Monday, and heeding his call to start registering voters now instead of waiting until right before the election, we thought of this as something that could be fun and of benefit to the community.
Basically, several of us would set up a card table outside some place such as Earthfare or Greenlife (with permission of course) with a stack of registration forms and register anyone who wishes to do so. It's an opportunity to not only register voters, but to talk with folks who perhaps haven't been keeping up with events in Raleigh as close as they would like. And of course it's a chance to spend more time with each other, and show off our DKos Asheville T-shirts.
We've already gone online and downloaded all of the information we need from the state elections board. But we haven't yet discussed a schedule, and we'll need to think further about locations and getting permission from stores to setup outside.
And speaking of Mountain Moral Monday, it was a wonderful event! The people of Western North Carolina turned out a huge and enthusiastic crowd; and as were the protests in Raleigh, this one too was for me a very moving event.
As SteelerGrrl reported earlier this week, there is a Moral Monday event planned for Monday, August 19 in Charlotte.
Meanwhile, interestingly, for those of you who've been so busy planning on registering voters that you haven't been outside for several months, it's still raining.
Enjoy your Saturday!