WOW! What a day!
Amid a landscape of blue tarped roofs, missing fences and decimated McDonald's signs we distributed flyers and well wishes for a great weekend...and reminders of "Don't forget to vote!" Suburb towns like La Porte and Pasedena remind me of California towns...only with hurrican damage. Still, people are voting in record numbers here just like every other town in the nation. One report said that the Houston area will have over 700,000 early voters by night's end. Way to recover.
For the most part, the students were well received, even causing some dem.'s to take pause at the novelty of the youthful political activists and graciously answer probing questions such as, "Are you registered to vote? Do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat or a....ah..." Alas, the terminology is slow in mastery. But, our students make the best of it, give an awkward smile and continue on with their scripted interrogation, thankful the home owner took the literature from their novice hand.
Still, other residents unswayed by youth and inexperience felt themselves compelled to blast our junior leagues with both guns...well, maybe just half a gun. But never the less, letting them know in no uncertain terms that theirs is a platform to be loathed and thus, allowed themselves the liberty of issuing rudeness. "That one was definitely a Democrat!" says a brutalized but very much alive young Republican. Hey, Mister....your Democrat is showing!
Fun we had...and tomorrow...more of the same!
Amid a landscape of blue tarped roofs, missing fences and decimated McDonald's signs we distributed flyers and well wishes for a great weekend...and reminders of "Don't forget to vote!" Suburb towns like La Porte and Pasedena remind me of California towns...only with hurrican damage. Still, people are voting in record numbers here just like every other town in the nation. One report said that the Houston area will have over 700,000 early voters by night's end. Way to recover.
For the most part, the students were well received, even causing some dem.'s to take pause at the novelty of the youthful political activists and graciously answer probing questions such as, "Are you registered to vote? Do you consider yourself a Republican, a Democrat or a....ah..." Alas, the terminology is slow in mastery. But, our students make the best of it, give an awkward smile and continue on with their scripted interrogation, thankful the home owner took the literature from their novice hand.
Still, other residents unswayed by youth and inexperience felt themselves compelled to blast our junior leagues with both guns...well, maybe just half a gun. But never the less, letting them know in no uncertain terms that theirs is a platform to be loathed and thus, allowed themselves the liberty of issuing rudeness. "That one was definitely a Democrat!" says a brutalized but very much alive young Republican. Hey, Mister....your Democrat is showing!
Fun we had...and tomorrow...more of the same!
