| Obama For America - Campaign in Columbus, OH Primary date: March 4, 2008 |
| Jesse & Araya |
| Jesse (TN) and Araya (CMH/Eritrea) |
| Damita (CMH) |
| Damita & Heather (CMH) |
| Friday dinner |
| Megan, Brian, Emma & Greta (All from CMH) |
| Megan, Heather, Emma & Greta |
| More signs |
| All you can eat |
| Yeah, he's up by 6 points in Texas already! |
| Dishwashing for Obama! |
| Food court |
| Action Shot! |
| Deb & Carrianna |
| Anika (Indiana) |
| Hazel (CMH) |
| James (CMH) |
| Ready for Canvassing |
| Button making |
| Araya |
| Deb (CMH) |
| Deb at work |
| Julia (VA) |
| Julia (VA) |
| Check out the shirt! |
| Planning to canvass |
| Getting ready for the weekend |
| Organizing |
| Getting ready for weekend canvassing |
| This year's election is exciting! More people than ever are getting involved in the electoral process, which is awesome! For my part, I'm devouring every article on the Internet and am prone to watching a lot of C-Span!! Yes, it's true. Yeah, I figured it was time to take it to the next level and get out of the house. So, I called the HQ and they got me in touch with the campaign offices at the SEIU building near my house. Thus far, I've helped organize meals and provide support for all the folks canvassing neighborhoods & working the phone banks. The best part is sitting down and discussing issues with folks from all over the country who have come here to Ohio to volunteer for Barack Obama's Campaign. For the folks working the campaign, help yourselves to these pictures. If you want one that's full sized, Email me and I can send it to you. These have been shrunk down to about 1200x900. This first section of pictures is from Friday, February 29! Take care! YES WE CAN!!! |
| City Councilman President, Michael Mentel |
| Hard at work - really! |
| Dave the Phone Bank dude! |
| Julia (VA) & Councilman Mentel |
| DC Folks back from the latest trip out canvassing neighborhoods |
| More DC folks |
| The Columbus phone Bank at work |
| Keeping the door hangers organized! |
| DC Folks |
| Food court |
| Hanging out |
| We started with 150 pizzas! |
| HI! |
| Saturday - Sunday - Monday |
| I have gobs of pictures and have finally added them all. Below will be the weekend pictures which include shots from a lot of folks from out of town - including 4 bus loads from DC! If you were here, drop me a line and let me know how things are going! rpcvbg@alumni.indiana.edu |
| Howard University's finest! |
| Corrianna |
| Luke & Corrianna |
| Meeting of the minds |
| Out of towners |
| Taking a break |
| Mmm...pizza! |
| Road trip! |
| Jesse sweeping the elections! |
| Even Ukraine & Switzerland were represented! |
| Yes we can! |
| HI! |
| Break time! |
| Gotta recycle! |
| Nadra, , Heather (DC) |
| George (DC) |
| Aisha & Norma |
| Take II |
| Nestor & Heather |
| Toby, our dispatcher |
| George & Nadra |
| Phil |
| Reacting to something...! |
| Score 1 for Obama! Here I am exiting the polling booths at the St. James Lutheran Church polling location. Note how all our arms and legs are quite wet from having been out in the rain. BRR! |
| Mayor Coleman |
| Jacob from California - he interviewed me for the barackobama.com site - it should show up there - eventually! |
| ?, Ryan (VA) and Steve (NJ) |
| HMB & George - still soaked! |
| Dave & Dave - DC |
| Veronica - Louisville, KY |
| Oh the drama! |
| My Voice! |
| Yo! |
| Whassa matta you? |
| Al Stone (DC) & Bob Dubill (VA) |
| Jacob |
| Election day is finally here! To get the day started, we met at the office at 645 am - yes, 645 in the morning! We started the day with a visibility march. What does that mean? Well - it meant that we drove out to intersections around the city (33/Grandview was ours) and hold up signs. No problem, right? Well...it was cold and pouring down rain. That's ok, we did it anyway! Thank goodness for rain ponchos! Yeah - we were all soaked from the knees and elbows down, but the energy was definitely there! After hanging out on street corners in the rain, I went to my polling location along with my entourage - well, 4 new friends from DC. They cheered me on as I came out after having cast my vote for Obama! Good to have your own cheering section! After that, we canvassed neighborhoods - again, in the rain! - we worked the phone banks, helped out at the offices, etc. We had several visitors throughout the day - including Columbus Mayor Coleman and at one point (I missed this) actor Blair Underwood. He canvassed neighborhoods, too! While we didn't win the primary in Ohio, we pretty much stayed as ahead as we were in delegates before the day's elections. |
| Election day! |
| This is Josh - on election day, he drove a voter to her polling location - 9 miles away! ...no shoes, uphill, both ways... Well - it makes for a good, if not overly dramatic, story anyway! |
| Barack Obama - Presidential Campaign 2008 |
| Email me with any questions, comments or whatever (feel free to say hi!) I'd love to hear from you! Heather |
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