A Family Affair
In Virginia Beach, organizing for the 2010 election is a family affair. At a recent canvass one volunteer brought her teenage son and later took a form to register her daughter; another brought her two young children along as she talked with voters. Check out what OFA Virginia is up to—and then find an event near you and bring your kids, parents, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles or anyone else who wants to join in. OFA Virginia community organizer Chrisi has more:
"I'm tired of politics as usual in this country, and felt like President Obama was the opposite of that. To change our divided politics, we have to make sure that the people who we registered and voted in 2008 vote again this year because they normally don't vote in the midterms." – Brenda T. from Virginia Beach
Saturday in Virginia Beach, families full of Obama supporters came together from around the region to register new voters and spread the word about the critical elections in 2010.
Brenda T., a frequent 2008 volunteer, came back out to get herself, her family and her community involved and mobilized in the political process again in 2010. Brenda canvassed her community with her 19 year old son B.J. and afterwards, took a voter registration form home for her own daughter to fill out.
Our organizers later met Anita O. - also of Virginia Beach. Anita is getting involved with OFA-VA because "I Order Generic Accutane Online without Prescription realized that just voting, or writing a check wasn't enough. What appealed to me [about OFA] was that they said that we could organize in our neighborhoods, in our communities." Sticking with the family trend, Anita brought her two young daughters along, who got their first taste of volunteering for President Obama, as well as some “VOTE 2010” stickers.
OFA-Virginia will be in every community across the commonwealth this summer, making sure new voters from 2008 make it back to the polls in 2010. We hope we'll see you at an event soon - and bring the whole family!