In days the immediately following Barack's acceptance speech in Denver, Colorado supporters set, and then met, an ambitious goal of registering 4000 new voters in just four days. On Monday, supporters in Fort Morgan celebrated Labor Day with a picnic and voter registration drive, with a special appearance by former State Senate President Stan Matsunaka. Jenn Prosser is on the ground in Colorado:
In 1894, Congress declared the first Monday of September to be a federal holiday. The holiday, Labor Day, was to be a "day off for the working citizen." Yesterday, the Morgan County Democrats got together for a picnic at Riverside Park in Fort Morgan.
Kerrie was there registering voters. She talked to us about the movement for change in eastern Colorado.
She said:
I came on board with the campaign in February, and we had a great turn out for the caucus in our small little town in Wiggins -- we had 14 people show up. Some of the women cried because they were just so excited.
Here's a video from the event:
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live. After the legislature passed a spending bill in April, Palin went through the measure reducing and eliminating funds for programs she opposed. Inking her initials on the legislation -- "SP" -- Palin reduced funding for Covenant House Alaska by more than 20 percent, cutting funds from $5 million to $3.9 million. Covenant House is a mix of programs and shelters for troubled youths, including Passage House, which is a transitional home for teenage mothers. According to Passage House's web site, its purpose is to provide "young mothers a place to live with their babies for up to eighteen months while they gain the necessary skills and resources to change their lives" and help teen moms "become productive, successful, independent adults who create and provide a stable environment for themselves and their families."
