Good morning and welcome. Over the course of my political internship with A.H.*, I will be documenting the various tasks, successes, problems, and political slander I run into. I came back to the Glenside/Philadelphia area a week before classes started, staying with a friend and collaborating ideas with the campaign staff.
My first meeting with A.H. was on campus, held on Thursday, August 27th. I laid out a few of my ideas for Registration Parties and getting volunteers. I would put together a few events at a few different places around town and invite him to speak at two meetings on campus regarding his campaign. He liked all of my ideas, but I'm beginning to find that the majority of the Glenside area leans red. I found this to be the case when I was shut down by the Glenside Pub to put together an event. Since I was holding voter registration forms in my hands, it gave my plans away and I got my full of the stink eye in a grand total of six minutes. Never having been turned away so brashly before, I took it to heart and did my research regarding which businesses leaned blue and found a prospective candidate.
The first Voter Registration Dinner Party shall be at my apartment on Friday, September 4, 2009. I'm preparing for twenty people. My original plan of suggesting a $5 donation for the campaign to build a better, cleaner, safer Cheltenham seems to be failing me. Creativity, thus far, has not been my weakness so I am confident I will find alternative ways to get donations and have a successful event pulling together many helping hands from my school. But, knowing failure is just inches away without preserverance, I feel as though I'm truly beginning to understand Axil Rose's line "welcome to the jungle." Welcome, indeed.
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*A.H. are the anonymous initials of the candidate I am on the campaign for.
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