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September 01, 2004
The Night The Lights Go Out On Madison Square...
As the Executive Director, I feel there are times when I hear something I just have to pass on, and today such a thing happened.
I logged on to my monthly conference call with Democratic State Chairs and Executive Directors today at 4pm. Our first item of business was a quick message from our Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe. We were all chitchatting the way you do when you are waiting for someone important to get on the line when out of nowhere we heard a lot of talking, a lot of static and we all became very quiet.
The next thing we heard was the voice of our fearless Chairman -"Coming to you Live from Madison Square Gardens - I'm on the call." he said. That certainly explained all of the noise. Our Party Chairman has gone where none of us have gone before -to the Republican National Convention.
He says he is having a ball. The crowd parts when he walks down the corridor - people point, people take pictures, and I am reasonably sure people say things that my mother should never know I heard. But, the point being that this is a renewed energy for us Democrats - a time for change, and enthusiasm that I have never witnessed.
I am excited about our chances in November - I am optimistic and hopeful. And it's not just from my vantage point up here on Main Street. It's the new people that show up in my office daily wanting to get involved; it's the people who I have read about on the DNC America Can Do Better Tours that I have come to admire; it's the lady at the picture maker at Target who looked at my Kerry/Edwards button and said to me "Where can I find one of those?" I handed her mine; It's the man who inspected my car that said "he's my guy too." For weeks we've gotten together and talked about the increasing number of bumper stickers we have seen - numbers that we had never imagined here in the Commonwealth. And that brings us to the next 63 days.
Our chances are good - Together we can do this in Virginia.
So when the lights go out tomorrow night on the Republican National Convention, let's remember that this is a race to November. That this relay team is ready and has been training for decades in Virginia to do what hasn't been done in 40 years. To turn Virginia Blue!
Everytime you knock on a door, make a call, slap on a lapel sticker that person you recruited runs the next leg in this race and it's up to all of us to get John Kerry & John Edwards across that finish line on November 2.
Remember, when they turn the lights out tomorrow night at Madison Square Gardens, it's just a rehearsal for that cold day in January when W filps the switch Off in the Oval Office.
Posted by lindsey at September 1, 2004 05:33 PM
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