We gathered 13,400 pounds of food -- with more to come tomorrow -- the second largest amount for a single drive for the year!
We brought in $4300 in cash and checks -- the largest amount of any drive for the year!
To put that in context, the Food Bank serves an average of 200 households each, three days a week. The food we brought in in one afternoon, including the bulk food that can be bought with those donations, is almost enough to feed the community for an entire month!
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
I had a sad and stunning thing happen while I was campaigning for Barack in Texas. This is why we have the end this race now.
We were in the Rio Grande Valley -- far southern Texas, almost completely Hispanic. I'd spent all election day handing out flyers at the same polling place as this warm, friendly, intelligent young woman, a school teacher, who was campaigning for a family member who was a judge. She was a Clinton supporter, but we were very cordial.
Towards the end of the day, I said to her, "Well, we're all good Democrats, so you'll be voting for him in November." I was completely shocked when she said, "You know, I love what he says, and I like all his positions on the issues. But I don't think I can vote for him."
