| Before I hot the doors for the evening, I thought I'd stop in and report what's happening out here in IL-14.
There's tons of people out from within the state and from across the country. Several "super volunteers" who volunteered with Bill in Pennsylvania hopped planes out to Aurora and are pounding the pavement with the rest of us.
The scientist and engineer activists are out in full effect, including current and former Fermilab scientists and support staff and academic colleagues of Bill's. There are several people here from around the country who went to grad school with Bill and are incredibly excited about his campaign.
Labor is on board with folks from IUPAT, SEIU, AFSCME, IBEW, and Letter Carriers everywhere. The Letter Carriers local in Aurora is one of the most militant unions I've had the pleasure to know and work with! You've got to love militant mailmen and women who want to see a change in their government.
The Seals campaign has sent a bunch of people and the Harper campaign, too. Even Jill Morgenthaler running in IL-06 sent people! Obama's Illinois organization is on board, too. In fact, I received a call from Obama's Chicago headquarters this morning asking me to volunteer! The woman on the other end of the line was pretty heartened to hear that I was already here!
I said "sort of" liveblogging because I'm not sure when I'll be back.
The turf is all cut for tomorrow and we're ready to go! And the best part?
There's no sign of Oberweis' people on the street ANYWHERE! |
