After a bit of writing for my heavily verbose CT Berner Blog - I headed over to Bernie World HQ-Des Moines. All my new Bernie buds were hard at work and the place was bustling with phone callers, canvassers, data logging, waves of media and who knows what that keeps everyone in motion there....all hard at work focused on the big GOTC - get out the caucus. for Monday as the clock keeps ticking down.. All day as I went in and out of HQ, the bee hive of Berniedom was buzzing - I finished tonight after 8pm I counted 47 people still at it on my way out the door.. For each of my visits during canvass trips or out of the phone bank cave there was never short of 40 people there doing stuff..
Stella from Greece was not as chipper as yesterday... she's a bit tired having put in 17 hours of greeting ...she mustered some
The people here have been wonderful and fascinating. London Simon greets me each time i step in the office - he almost immediately approaches me each time he hasn't sen me for a bit and tries to hustle me into an assignment.. he doe that with everyone - seeming to know if they are on task or idle. He hopped a plane and came to America right after college, graduating with a Histrory degree ...and no job.. He fell into the Bernie campaign staff job and he'll spend 2 more days in Iowa and get dispatched maybe to Idaho next week.. He likes his adventure.
Panama Mark - my newest FB friend made the trip to Iowa, flew in last night, just so he could help Bernie win. He'll be heading to New Hampshire Wednesday - figure I'll see him when I go.
Panama Mark has a deep hatred of corrupt politics, which seems to be one of Panama's industries. He really wants Bernie to win and is doing all he can to help, with the hopes that Bernie will work to make America the world leader opposing political corruption and setting a high bar standard that may drive Panama to change its ways too. Pretty lofty - but amazing how so many people see this Bernie movement as a real fight worth fighting... a revolution with no bounds.
Panama Mark was hard at work and when I left HQ had succumbed to fatigue..and took a nap on sitting on one of the HQ couches..
My best bud is Donovan. From Maryland - a bernie staffer - doesn't know yet where his next assignment is. He is a work horse. He has a big pile of precincts to manage - 1/3 of Des Moines is his turf. Mapping out and dispatching canvassing and outreach then setting up each precinct caucus and making sure his peeps are ready to chase votes and win Monday night in each precinct..well see how he dis as results arrive
San Jose Linda is a radiogical technologist, an SEIU member
who is deeply disappointed her union went south on Bernie. So she is here for a few days with her friend to help Bernie win. She is on vacation, and as most health care folks know, you need to put in for vacation months in advance. She knew a long time ago she need to get in the program to help bernie out, She has another week off, as approved, and wanted to head to New Hampshire from here but settled to head home thru Nevada instead.. Absolutely astounding the depth and grasp of cause and effect on issues and politics and a determination to do what she can to rebuild America - and for her our health care system.
There are more - and they will find their way to this blog. But you may be noticing that the Bernie fans really are deeply committed to see this revolution begin. You also may have noticed that there are no inside dems, billionaires, machine politicians or the likes of those working real hard to preserve the status quo. High hopes - maybe dreams - matched with a fight and a revolution for a better America and even starting a fire to change the world...
The more I look around - the more I find great Americans oozing their passion for a better tomorrow... and they express it...door knocking...making calls...entering data....one voter at a time..
Holey moley..something is going on here....
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