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The Big Red Bus to Portland!

By Kerry - Taking long deep tokes off the Hope Bong! - Apr 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am EDT

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I went to Oregon yesterday with a group of about 40 Obama volunteers from Seattle. We boarded a big red double-decker bus donated and driven by Mike Hale of Hale's Ales. We left Seattle early in the morning and had a great time while drawing a lot of attention driving down I-5 to Portland. People honked, waved and took our picture the whole way.

We were in luck with a beautiful sunny day and arrived just after 12, got a brief training and broke up into groups to register voters. Oregon has a closed primary so we were also updating voter registrations for Republicans and Independents who want to be able to vote for Barack on May 20th.

My group was sent to the area around the entrance of Whole Foods in the Pearl District. We met a lot of great people all through the day, most already registered to vote. We did have one crazy heckler shouting out extremist things about Obama but we ignored him and he went away.

In the end, I registered 8 people and our group registered 235 people!! Mike even registered someone while he was waiting for us with the bus - Yaay Mike, my new hero! :)

We all had dinner and hopped on the bus and headed back home tired but still FIRED UP! Mike gave us each a Hale's Ale for our efforts and we spent the ride back sharing stories of our day and arrived back in Seattle 12 hours after leaving knowing it was a day well spent!

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By Anton May 5th 2008 at 11:56 pm EDT

Way to go! I like Hales Ales, I like Obama, what a perfect combination. Glad you had a good time and got a few more Dems to vote in Oregon!

Yes WE can!

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By Marc from Springfield, IL May 28th 2008 at 3:45 pm EDT

I am trying to track down one of these buttons.

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