We had a great meeting Saturday afternoon with Yohannes Abraham, a paid Obama campaign staffer who worked in the winning races in Iowa and South Carolina. He is now coordinating the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) effort in Prince William County and Fairfax County.
We are just one week away from the Virginia primary on February 12th and we need your help now!!!
We need people to make phone calls to remind voters of the primary and urge them to support Barack Obama. We will be making phone calls from the Prince William County Democratic Headquarters at 4326 Dale Boulevard, Suite 6, Dale City, VA 22193 on Sunday, February 10th from 1PM to 8PM. Please bring your cell phones and we will provide the call list and script.
(Disclaimer: the PWCDC headquarters is available for all primary candidates).
If you would prefer to make phone calls from home this week, please send an email to Pete Frisbie at pfrisbie@aol.com and we will get the materials to you!
On Monday afternoon, February 11th, we will be passing out Obama literature to commuters at the Woodbridge and Rippon VRE train stations. We need several volunteers at each station from 4PM to 6:15PM. If you can help there, please send an email to janetouchet@comcast.net and we will work out all of the logistics.
On Tuesday, the polls will be open from 6AM to 7PM. If you would like to greet voters at the polls and pass out Obama literature, please send an email to janetouchet@comcast.net and let us know which specific hours you are available. We will cover as many voting precincts for as much time as we can.
At the meeting Saturday we discussed a special outreach to houses of worship on Sunday to remind people of the primary on Tuesday and urging them to vote for Barack Obama. Please contact your minister or religious leader to discuss whether an announcement can be made or literature passed out after the services.
If you have not already done so, write a letter to the editor for the Potomac News explaining why you are supporting Obama; and send it along to all of the friends and family in your contact list.
We may have an influx of out-of-state volunteers for the last few days leading up to election day. If you have space to house a couple of people, please send me an email at kscarborough@ana.net to give me the details.
Finally, I hope you will join us at the Super Tuesday watch party tomorrow night. We will be at Brittany's Restaurant, 12449 Dillingham Square, Woodbridge, VA 22192 beginning at 7PM. We'll have big screen TVs and food and drinks available to purchase. Also, we have yard signs and a limited supply of buttons and bumper stickers. Hope to see you there!
The campaign is building tremendous momentum and working together, we can carry Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park for Obama!