Who : Obama supporters
What : Phone banking, training, GOTV
When : Today , on going
Where : 566 W Lake Street
I took a ride about 5 blocks from my abode, to the new Obama HQ. What I found (and pix) below the fold
From the outside there is no signage, but you could tell from the outside, it was on.
The space is a short flight down on the lower level. The offices are spacious, and there are a half a dozen office areas. As I'm writing this the local news is saying there were 500
people there today. The staff (and everyone) was friendly, and extremely organized. They had a reception area
training room (gotta have a script- know how to handle yourself- Camp Obama)
Phone banks / with computers
More phone banks.
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I'm not really the best phone banker, and they will be running people to both Michigan and Indiana till the election, I will volunteer to knock on doors the critical weekend before.
For now my efforts are limited to cash and subliminal support. I gave them a stack of the
embroidered patches, T-shirts, and hats I had made up, to pass on to volunteers. (I will do this the next few weekends)
In the mean time, I want to do a round billboard, that would look like a ten foot Obama button,
and mount it to the side of my building. It would be 15' away from the Metro Lines, and would
be seen by about 20,000 folks a day. Grassroots.. we all have something to contribute.