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I've been volunteering to elect Tom Barrett in the recall election. My experiences so far have been even more interesting than the ones I had volunteering for Obama in 2008.
There's a campaign office not far from where I live. Actually, the office is only in one side of the building. The other half is a traditional black church which meets almost daily at about 7 PM. They're extremely loud, and since (until recently) we were mainly making phonecalls out of this office, it was fun trying to work there during their services.
I got sick of going to my local office, so a couple days ago I went to the one downtown; the people running it proved themselves to be complete idiots. First, the woman at the front desk said she was happy to see someone my age interested in politics. I told her that my grandparents were into politics, and were democrats. She asked me if they were still alive. They are not.
Then she left, and while I was making phone calls, the two guys who work there got the genius idea that, whenever we got someone to volunteer, we should play a song to get "fired up". The problems with this should be pretty obvious. Not only that, the 2 other women who were volunteering were obnoxious; they kept yelling whenever they got someone who supported Barrett. I never got anyone to volunteer.
Today, my local office finally started canvassing. I got paired up with a southern guy. He came in from Chicago with a group of people from Illinois, so none of them knew their way around Milwaukee. The southern guy was nice, but he didn't have a car, and talked me into walking to the area we had to canvass. Then about halfway through he starting feeling sick and we gave up. I called the guy he came with (John), who was supposed to pick us up, but since he didn't know Milwaukee it took him like 45 minutes to find us even though he was like a block away.
During these 45 minutes, me and the southern guy waited near a bus stop. Southern guy fell asleep, and some random guy drove up and asked me why I was angry. Then he made fun of the southern guy and said he was going to "steal [me] from [my] boyfriend" (i.e., southern guy) before driving off. Southern guy was asleep with a shirt over his head, so he missed the hilarity of it all, but when he woke up he did say some pretty interesting things about John (45 minutes? Really?).
At the last minute, southern guy decided to stay in Wisconsin to volunteer until the election. Before the group he came with went back to Chicago, one of the older women in it took me by the hand and made me promise I would "take care of" southern guy. She was extremely serious about this. Southern guy is in his twenties and I don't think he knows this woman very well, but okay.
There's a campaign office not far from where I live. Actually, the office is only in one side of the building. The other half is a traditional black church which meets almost daily at about 7 PM. They're extremely loud, and since (until recently) we were mainly making phonecalls out of this office, it was fun trying to work there during their services.
I got sick of going to my local office, so a couple days ago I went to the one downtown; the people running it proved themselves to be complete idiots. First, the woman at the front desk said she was happy to see someone my age interested in politics. I told her that my grandparents were into politics, and were democrats. She asked me if they were still alive. They are not.
Then she left, and while I was making phone calls, the two guys who work there got the genius idea that, whenever we got someone to volunteer, we should play a song to get "fired up". The problems with this should be pretty obvious. Not only that, the 2 other women who were volunteering were obnoxious; they kept yelling whenever they got someone who supported Barrett. I never got anyone to volunteer.
Today, my local office finally started canvassing. I got paired up with a southern guy. He came in from Chicago with a group of people from Illinois, so none of them knew their way around Milwaukee. The southern guy was nice, but he didn't have a car, and talked me into walking to the area we had to canvass. Then about halfway through he starting feeling sick and we gave up. I called the guy he came with (John), who was supposed to pick us up, but since he didn't know Milwaukee it took him like 45 minutes to find us even though he was like a block away.
During these 45 minutes, me and the southern guy waited near a bus stop. Southern guy fell asleep, and some random guy drove up and asked me why I was angry. Then he made fun of the southern guy and said he was going to "steal [me] from [my] boyfriend" (i.e., southern guy) before driving off. Southern guy was asleep with a shirt over his head, so he missed the hilarity of it all, but when he woke up he did say some pretty interesting things about John (45 minutes? Really?).
At the last minute, southern guy decided to stay in Wisconsin to volunteer until the election. Before the group he came with went back to Chicago, one of the older women in it took me by the hand and made me promise I would "take care of" southern guy. She was extremely serious about this. Southern guy is in his twenties and I don't think he knows this woman very well, but okay.