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In reply to the discussion: Thank God Facebook is down [View all]electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)My dad had me going around our apartment building with him slipping local, and state political flyers under our neighbors' doors by the time I was 12 or so. 😄
I've done volunteer work for campaigns, and various single issues off & on for about 53(!) years.
Four memories
1) I was riding around with others on the back of a flatbed truck with a band in front all decked out in R,W & B and campaign photos for Humphrey going down 5th Ave handing out buttons etc.
2) The last of the massive rallies (in general for politics) for McGovern. I have 2 photos (grainy b&w bc very blown up) from it.
3) Being on the decorating committee at the Sheraton Hilton (NYC) at their big ballroom for Clinton/Gore '92.
Then we got to stay and watch them win. It was sooo
exciting!
4)Being at MSNBC's Election Center in Rockefeller Center's plaza in '08 & '12 for Obama/Biden's win. Fabulous!
Good on you for your GOTV stuff. 👍
When I had access to a computer, design software, and a printer I wrote and designed (sometimes added drawings) letter sized posters I'd put up in my neighborhood, and at one of the biggest University's in Manhattan for 2 maybe 3 Presidencial Campaigns.
The reason I joined DU was a U2 site with a off-topic political etc sub forum had gotten fairly quiet, and I needed more interaction during the '20 election! I remembered seeing DU back in ?00, 01 while at a Net Cafe (no net at home). I remembered the name in June '20 and found it.
Mexican and Armenian - interesting combo! One of these months I'm going to do the geographical ancestry stuff.
Gardening is an endeavor I admire, and have read some stuff on particularly organic vegetables. I love flower gardening as well, as well as garden design itself.
I can see from your description your FB feed is busy, busy, busy. I've added more interest groups. I love besides the people I know chatting with others from all over the USA, and the world.
A pig ad!? Ha! Any farming region near you? Funny!