What Hillary Means to Me
April 29, 2008
Dawn is a volunteer from Fishers, Indiana.
I had the unbelievable opportunity to stand on stage with Hillary Clinton in Indianapolis and speak about what her candidacy means to me — all while she stood less than two feet away from me! Here’s what I told the audience: I am a single mom with 3 kids, 2 of which still live at home. I work a full time job, I don’t have a lot of free time, and I don’t have a lot of money. But when Hillary’s campaign came to Indiana I knew, after volunteering (for the first time EVER) in the primary in Ohio back in March, and absolutely seeing what volunteers can do – that I was going to have to get involved in my own “village” of Indiana.
I told the crowd how I work in downtown Indianapolis so I go to the downtown campaign office 4 or 5 days a week on my lunch hour and make calls to Hoosiers and talk to them about Hillary. I also come in two nights a week when my son is at his grandparents for the night. I canvas on Saturdays. I talk to hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in Indiana every day. And I am so excited to hear the vast majority of them are planning on voting for Hillary. Sometimes I’m on the phone for under a minute – “Yes, I’m voting – pause – You bet I’m voting for Hillary.” But sometimes, I’m on the phone for twenty minutes, listening to someone’s story, about their husband losing his job, or their mother who can’t afford her medicine. I hear their story and then they tell me why they’re voting for Hillary. Everyone has their own reasons and their stories are compelling and they remind me of why I’m not eating lunch again today, and why I’m still working long after my regular job ended.
I also spoke to the audience about going online and donating to the campaign. I told a crowd of strangers that I live paycheck to paycheck (not something you usually shout from a stage) – but, I also told them that I have $20 a month deducted from my checking account and donated to the Hillary’s campaign. I know it’s not much, but that $20 and the $20 of thousands of other people just like me who trust and believe in Hillary Clinton – that money adds up! This campaign needs donations – our opponent outspends us everywhere we go! Like it or not, it takes money to run a campaign, to compete even for the ears of potential voters, to give everyone a yard sign who walks in the office begging for one! So I asked that crowd of people to do what they would do for their kids baseball team – donate time, donate money – but this time, do it for their children’s future. I think they got it. I think when you put it that simply; people understand that they have to get personally invested in their own future and their children’s future. I couldn’t have put my $20 in better hands.
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