It’s Getting Hot In Here

Signing people up for the bus to the VP debate

Kassie and I rolled into Carbondale, IL this afternoon to meet some awesome Power Voters here at Southern Illinois University. Check out www.Flickr.com/powervote for some great photos!

We were met by the local TV station and 2 newspapers and about 6 Power Vote leaders. In the hour before it started raining we got at least 60 new Carbondale students pledged.

I am blogging now from Ashley’s living room- a rad local Power Vote leader. We have been phone banking to get people to fill a bus of students to bring to St Louis to rally outside the VP debate Thursday.

After a delicious dinner of local greens and curry about 6 people from the campus environmental group showed up for an organizing meeting. We started by figuring out our canvassing plan for tomorrow, then called through all the Power Vote pledgers they’ve collected who said they wanted to volunteer to invite them to join the caravan to the debate. So many people wanted to come we had to talk about getting an extra bus. Woohooo!!!

Now the calls are done and folks are chatting about what an Illinois coalition could look like. There’s a clean car initiative up as well as a grab to lift the moratorium on nuclear plants. Nooo!!! Sounds like the good people of Illinois have some work to do. Thank goodness they have some seriously organized and wonderful people working here in Carbondale.

Stay tuned for more adventures from the Power Vote Windmill Debate Tour!