The One Million Splotz of Glue Campaign

I got a very quick response from the Kucinich camp to my question I posted to their campaign website, “What do you do to build community?” Linda Z. a Volunteer for Kucinich for President 2008 writes:

Thank you so much for sharing your link with us. And thank you for writing to us.

You ask an excellent question.

I am part of a national community of people supporting and volunteering for Dennis Kucinich for President, 2008 and I also worked on the campaign in 2004. I am working from my laptop in Plano, Texas.

I consider Dennis Kucinich my Congressman, even though I don’t live in Cleveland.

When he writes, speaks on the House floor, speaks on the campaign trail, everything he says, in the various public opportunities he has to speak, represents my point of view, from his work to bring the troops home from Iraq to his work and his legislation, that he wrote with John Conyers, on Universal Health Care.

And since I first volunteered for Dennis Kucinich, I am a part of a wonderful community of volunteers working to support the issues that Dennis Kucinich works for in Congress because these are the issues that we feel strongly about from the Space Preservation Act of 2005, to keep outer space free of weapons of mass destruction to Kucinich’s support for the right of the GLBT to marry and Kucinich’s stand against an amendment in the Constitution to ban GLBT marriage.

I might be writing to you about things you are already familiar with in regards to where Dennis Kucinich stands on the issues.

I do not get one-on-one communication with Dennis Kucinich as a volunteer and I am not involved in conference calls with the campaign. The community part comes into play with the fact that I can come to a conservative part of the country, North of Dallas, after living in NYC for 18 years and I can connect to people who support Dennis Kucinich and his Department of Peace Legislation and we become friends because we care so deeply about the issues.

I have heard Dennis say how we are all connected and it is the work that Dennis is doing everyday that unites his supporters. The time or contributions we give to the campaign unite our community of Kucinich supporters in an effort that we truly love and in an effort that we believe ends fear and begins hope.

In Hope and In Peace,

Linda Z., Volunteer
Kucinich for President, 2008

Campaigns are sometimes fun, sometimes painful, and always a learning process. Get involved in a local campaign, go door to door, host a coffee gathering, and get to know the issues and candidates. Support those you believe in and trust. Pull papers and run if you have trouble finding someone else to support. This is one of my favorite ways to build community. Thank you for responding Linda and best of luck during the campaign. 999,998 more to go.

What do you do to build community?

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Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Lloyd Y. Asato
Filed under: Splotz of Glue