I am writing this post at 1230 on election day and I have been thinking about the last 2 years and all I can say is wow. I created the Walla Walla group to help lead the charge in that area. I created it the night Barack announced. The fact that we are thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis close to having what we wanted back then, it is special. Things didn't work out in Walla Walla the way I would have liked, but I started working at the office as an intern in Pullman to still be involved. I have made literally thousands of calls and spoken with soooo many people about this election. Those nice people who come into the office to get a sign and talk about the campaign...those are moments that I won't forget. I have learned so much about how campaigns work, but I know that only those candidates whom can inspire people and make them believe can be truly successful. I don't know if Barack will win later today, I sure think he will. But I know that our guy was right on the issues, and the better candidate. A loss today would be heartbreaking after having come so far, but i don't see it hapening. I think Barack will break 300 Electoral votes. That is my "pre-game" prediction. I sure hope i am right.
I want to thank everyone I have met over the last 2 years because of this campaign. I feel I have made some friends that I can always talk politics with. But they are also people with whom I will really enjoy working with in 2012 when it gets to be re-election time.
Win or lose, what a ride! I will post one more tomorrow night.
Thanks for reading, please message me back!
Rick
Christmas in August!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a pick by McCain! This is the most obvious "political" pick ever! The thought of this lady being THAT close to being Commander-in-Chief is scary! If McCain wanted to do this, he should have picked Condi Rice. She has the credentials to be VP. This was a pick out of fear. They knew they needed to combat that amazing speech last night from Barack. This election is going to be very telling. We are going to see how smart America really is. If that ticket for the R's really wins.....I have to question the intelligence level of our nation. If people are that scared of Barack because he does not look like the guys on the dollar bills and has a funny name...we deserve everything we get.
Barack Obama has the vision necessary to be Commander-in-Chief. So does Joe Biden...really to be honest, McCain is qualified too! But Palin! Really!?!?!? I have read 5 Bio's of her on the news in the last 2 hours and I have come to a few conclusions on why she was picked.
1.) She is a Hockey Mom w/ 5 Kids. I heard more people talking about this today than any type of legitimate ideas or policy plans. That must mean she can be leader of the free world right?!!?!?!
2.) She is middle class; she has those 5 kids and her husband by her side. The McCain people figure that since she has one house, she can balance the ticket with McCain's 7!
She has no foreign policy cred at all! She is even under investigation in her own state for criminal activity! Give me a break!
I had to vent a bit. I am sorry about that. But McCain and company really don't think very high of the American people in terms of how smart we are. Like I said at the top, we get a chance to prove that they are wrong. If they win....maybe they are right about their opinion's of our intelligence.
P.S I wish I could have been at that stadium last night. What a show!
What a selection! He is the best possible pick for our guy and it is great to see that the Obama people agree. Now is the time for all of us to rally together and get going. I am listening to Obama right now talking about Biden and I keep thinking of the night Barack announced at the same location all those months ago. It caused me to come to this site and create this group and attempt to rally the people of Walla Walla around the cause for change. I even went out on a canvas on my own and hit 20 houses. From there I moved to Pullman to finish my education but I still want to do my part in this campaign in Walla Walla. I had a letter put in the paper 2 days before the caucus in Febuary to highlight this point. Nancy M. is my co-leader in this group, and she has been doing a great job. The only thing I ask today is that all of us communicate more. I do not want to be left behind in the group. I will do whatever is necessary. Everyone knows what my ideas are, we need to canvas, phone bank, and get our building downtown set up. It is up to us to turn Walla Walla blue. I hope everyone can answer this post and we can set things up here as we head down the stretch.
Folks, I hope we can work together. Talk to me, and lets make something happen.
Moving forward, we are going to need to be out in front of the McCain people in Walla Walla. We are very much the underdogs against McCain in this county. Nancy is our new administrator and has been doing unbelieveable things in the area to get things going. We have a building promised to us downtown that will be the office for the democrats this fall. It is thanks to Nancy and the other Rick (since it's his building) :D
There are a few of you who have been working with Nancy but we all have not been able to hook up yet. I will be at the festivities we are conducting on Fathers day at the festival. I am hoping to use this time to meet everyone and so we can all share ideas. I am going to be involved in this campaign as much as I can. Nancy is very invovled and is going to be running things Day to day as we progress. I am in Pullman going to school so my time is limited in Walla Walla. However, it is still home and I still am going to have an active role in the decision making process moving forward. I will also be working with the folks here in Pullman. I am really happy about the way things have gone so far. We have a lot of help and a lot of people involved through this site, now we have to all take the next step and meet up ( I know a few of you have, but not everyone). This event on Fathers day will be perfect for exactly that. Once we get our office downtown, it will be even easier.
I hope all of you will get back with me and just share your thoughts. I really want things to get big in Walla Walla. I know we can do it.
Fired UP! Ready to go!
It looks like our guy is going to win part one of this fun ride and beat Sen. Clinton. The question now is...what do we do next? I have been making phone calls thoughout the primary season, participated in a walk for change event last summer, and got a letter requesting support for Obama the day before the Washington caucus. Going forward, what can we do to further support our guy in the general? For the Walla Walla group, I know a few of you have met to make sure our delegates don't switch to Clinton. That was a great idea. What should we do to help get the word out in Walla Walla. My personal goal for the election is to turn Walla Walla county blue. Door to door, phone banking and flyers will help. If we can all chip in money and perhaps buy some of those yard signs and offer them free of charge to people who will put them out...that would be a great way for people to see Obama out in force. For my Cougs, I am not in a position of leadership with your group, however, I will be in Pullman next fall through the election so whatever plans you guys have (like the ones I mentioned above) I am all for.
Unless things change, Obama will win Washington. If this state can vote for a dork like Kerry, Obama has nothing to worry about! lol On a bigger front, phone banking to battleground states like OH and FL will be important. Setting up a phone bank would be a great way after the convention to get things going. I am free to go to Walla Walla from Pullman Thursday night through Monday night untill August, then it will have to be more planned out as to when I can come in. I think a great start to things would be if I could get some responses from you fine folks just to know you are out there and are interested. People from out of the Walla Walla area, any ideas?
A goal of turning WW county blue would be our way of making our mark on the 2008 election. I think it is something we should all chase.
Thanks!
Rick Evans
Chairman WW 4 Obama
My letter to the Walla Walla U.B. Let me know what you think!
With Washington’s caucus right around the corner (Saturday-1pm at Garrison) Washington State could have a major role in selecting the next President of the United States. On the Republican side of the ticket, the race is pretty much over as John McCain should win their nomination. That leaves the Democratic ticket still to be decided. The choices are Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. However in my view, there is no choice. Barack Obama is the best candidate and would make the best President. I feel that it’s a shame we are spending so much money on a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged while 46 million people in this country, our country, don’t have health care, Barack Obama feels the same way. I feel it is a shame that someone can work full time at the local Wal-Mart and still need food stamps, so does Barack Obama. I feel that it is important to be able to not only lead on day one in the oval office, but to have the judgment to be right on day one in the oval office. That person is Barack Obama, not Sen. Clinton. Some question his experience. To that I answer... Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld had a lot of experience in Washington politics and we know how that turned out.
The decision is clear. Sen. Barack Obama is the only candidate who can beat John McCain. Sen. Clinton will unite the republicans and bring us a candidate in Sen. McCain who pledges a “100 year” presence in Iraq if necessary. We can not have that. I am asking you to support Barack Obama on Saturday and to tell the country and the world that it is “Time to turn the page”.
Thank you
Richard G. Evans
Hello Everyone
Well..super tuesday didn't solve anything. That gives us a great chance to make a difference in Washington state on Saturday afternoon for Sen Obama. The question now is, how do we do it? Going door to door would be effective this late in the game due to it's immediate impact and the ability to put a face (ours) with the Obama message. However, that will take a lot of people getting involved to be effective. As I stated before, I am in Pullman for school but I will come in to Walla Walla if we can get something going.
A word about the caucus. All of us have received those ballets in the mail for the primary. They DO NOT COUNT FOR THE DEMOCRATS! For some reason, the DNC will only select delegates from Washington through the caucus. That will take place this weekend (sat) at Garrison middle school at 1 pm. It is very important that everyone who can show up does so. We need a W in walla walla.
If going door to door is not an option. We can make calls to different towns in Washington though the phone bank program for Obama on this site. Let me know if you need more info on how to make that happen.
Thanks for reading, lets make something happen!
Greetings,I am writing tonight after accepting 6 new members to our group. To those new members I say, welcome. Those of you who have read my posts before (specifically the last addition) know that I have been going through a bit of not knowing who I want to support. I was convinced that I wanted Obama as soon as he declared. I then thought about it a bit more as I am a republican who voted for W in 2004 and decided I might like Rudy Giuliani more. I don't like any of the other republicans and I don't like Clinton. That has left me in a weird situation the last few months in terms of who to support and how. With the Florida primaries being decided today, it looks like that decision was made for me. I now have one candidate to support, and I will support him to the best of my ability for as long as he is viable. I WANT BARACK OBAMA TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT! The question now is, what can I do to help? What can we do to help? In the immediate future, this website has a program called the "national call team". To join the call team, it is called "phone banking for barack" and it is a group that you join just like this group for Walla Walla. This would be our way to call states that vote on Feb 5 and convince them to vote for Barack. That will give us something to contribute. Free nights and weekends will allow us to make sure we get the word out to these states with cell phones. After that, we have our primary in the middle of Feb. I am currently in Pullman going to Washington State but that won't deter me from coming to Walla Walla and working with this group in the days preceding the primary to help get the vote out. Phone calls, canvassing door to door and anything else we can think of to get people to support our candidate.I did a canvassing effort on my own during the summer around Walla Walla and it didn't go so well. Going door to door on my own was a little productive but not worth the cost or effort. Now that it appears I have support in the community that seems willing to help me and allow us to get the vote out for Barack, I am very excited. I am "fired up"! "Ready to go!" and ready to "Turn the page!" I hope you will join me and start something fun in Walla Walla. Thank you for readingRick EvansHead of Walla Walla 4 Obama
To my fellow cougs: I know we have a group going here. I don't know how involved you guys are, but I want to help however I can. I will be making calls all weekend to Feb 5 states to get Barack support. Do we have anything planned to get the vote out here?
Well, what an interesting couple of days. I posted on here a while ago about wanting to get together a walk for change event. I was not sure how it would go or what we could do, but I wanted to get other responses. No one seemed very interested, so I decided to try to do some things on my own. I was waiting for materials from the campaign and they never came. Yesterday, I was informed that I was not getting a box of materials because I only had 1 person participating (Me). So I decided I was going to print out the materials from this site and go door to door leaving the materials and a letter I wrote on 30 doorsteps. (If you saw plastic bags on doorhandles around town today...that was me :D
Sounds simple right? Well, staples cost 65 bucks to get everything printed, that was a bit of a shock. Then the process of going to 30 doors was a bit more than I thought it would be. However, I felt pretty good when it was over. I had materials for the campaign at 30 doorsteps around Walla Walla and College Place.
I got home tonight from work to find no new adds to the group and no new people joining the site.
What are the issues that Walla Walla has to deal with in the next 4 years? What are the issues that voters in this town think are important? I ask these questions because I want to get an idea as to how we can craft our Obama campaign to be custom to Walla Walla. If people know Obama will serve them well on a local level...they will listen to him on other issues and be more incline to vote. But I would love ideas on a starting point. Anything?
Thanks
Hey everyone, I started a fundraising page for Barack but I am having trouble thinking of sites with people who might contribute.
Any ideas?
Walla Walla 4 Obama!
