Yesterday, April 26th, was the Oregon-wide house party day, complete with a conference call featuring the great Representative Blumenauer and Senator Dick Durbin. We were pleased to host our first house party (which sounds even scarier if you call it a fundraiser!) and were honored to host our fantastic State Representative Peter Buckley as a guest speaker from the campaign. After cooking and cleaning all day we welcomed 14 total guests into our house to chat about politics generally, Senator Obama particularly and enjoy some good food and drink and make new friends.
We raised $100 and we registered four people to vote in the primary(who hadn't realized or had forgotten that they needed to re-register as democrats) and we made a lot of new friends. Thank you to all of our guests and we hope we can welcome you into our home again. Of course, a special thank you to Rep. Buckley and to the Obama campaign for providing us with the materials and motivation to host this event.
If you're thinking of hosting your own party, I do encourage you to do so. It's great fun.
And oddly enough, today, April 27th, we hosted our second house party to benefit the Humane Society's Legislative Fund, who was encouraging Americans to contact their congressional delegation in favor of a bill to provide better protections for farm animals and our food supply. We had some overlap on the guest list (Joseph and Sarah love farm animals AND Obama!) and a nice afternoon. You can contribute to the Society's excellent work at the link above.
A lot of hard work, but a terrific weekend!
---C
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