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politicat

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78. My almost 93 year old granny has been phone-banking from home for years.

Thu Jan 12, 2017, 11:49 PM

Jan 2017

She's got fragile bones, and stopped driving a few years ago. My parent will drive her when she wants to go somewhere (I live 1000 miles away) but granny doesn't like to ask for rides. But she called her local Dem office and Planned Parenthood and talked to their volunteer coordinators to find something she could do from home. Someone brings her a call sheet every day or every other day, and granny makes calls.

It's worth your mother making the inquiry. It really does keep my granny's spirits and her fighting constitution on the go.

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