Morning Coffee with Strangers
Volunteering for Karen Carter Peterson
It’s been a busy (really good) week and I’m going to end it by rewatching one of my last fun binges — Crash Landing on You (a South Korean scripted series). It’s a fun story… so very implausible tho’ :) yet so so good. Side bar: It’s implausible in the same delicious way that Grey’s Anatomy can be. You know? One of my favorite Grey’s storylines was in season 2 (or 3) when Izzie falls in love with a patient; cuts his L-VAD cord in order to force the hospital to give him a transplant so that she and he can live happily ever after. Crazy. Only, that’s clearly not what happens next and we’re just as devastated as she is when it all falls apart. You had to be there. It’s an emotional see-saw. Crash Landing on You is deliciously dramatic like that.
Reasonably less dramatic (usually, anyway) is phone-banking for a candidate you believe in.
Tomorrow morning I will wake up early and commence to phone-banking for Karen Carter Peterson. To be clear, I do not live in her district. I do not even live in her state. So I cannot myself vote for her. Yet, sending this brilliant, effective, thoughtful leader to the legislative branch of the United States government interests me immensely. Sending a Black woman with Karen Carter Peterson’s deep experience as a public servant is simply a no-brainer for me too.
I do hope the residents I will speak with are open to hearing our given talking points. I also welcome the hanger-up’er folks though. I understand them too :). Just saying: Who wants to talk to a stranger on their Saturday morning about voting? Yawn. I get it. But I am nevertheless fired up because we #winwithBlackwomen and we ALL win when candidate Peterson becomes Congresswoman Peterson. So, let’s GO!
In the event of any foul-mouthed folks only picking up to pick a fight with a phone-banker (me, in this case) while mewling on about loving our country but actually pushing unloving agendas… Please y’all, put your phones on silent and pull those covers up nice and snug.
Yet, I’m happy to connect with any potential voter (from any party) who is on the fence or otherwise unsure whom they plan to support. I’m so ready to hear their hearts and to also discuss the merits of #KCP with them.Let’s go Louisiana. You’ve got this. We’ve got this, together!
See you in the morning!
