Day 1 at Virginia Obama HQ

Last week, I met Katherine and Wynne, two field organizers who have been assigned to Virginia. They emailed me about helping today.

I arrived at HQ, Kevin Wolf's basement, around 11. I helped Wynne brainstorm some Voter Reg. ideas for Memorial Day (like hitting up the parades, the Fun Run in Falls Church, the pools, etc.) while waiting for a group from Roanoke College to come meet us. Once they arrived, we trained them on Voter Reg., piled in the car and drove out to Mount Vernon where there was a Naturalization Ceremony going on. We were excited to register new citizens.

45 minutes later, we arrived at Mount Vernon, only to discover that the ceremony had already ended and everyone was gone. Oh well. At least we got a free trip to Mount Vernon out of it! We drove back, had lunch at Ballston Mall, and then they jumped on the Metro to try their luck at registering voters there. I'll find out how they did next time.

169 days of campaigning left!