Our Second Campaign Staff Visit

MEETING AT BARACK OBAMA NH CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS

On Wednesday, July 11, we visited the Manchester campaign headquarters of Barack Obama. The GSOP delegation consisted of Ruth Heden, Brother Paul Crawford, Fred Robinson, Cathy Burke, Marcia Nelson, and Susan Stott from the Merrimack Valley Project in Andover, MA. We met with Heather Quinn, who is the Director of Scheduling for the campaign.

We each introduced ourselves to Heather, with a little information about ourselves.
Fred explained that GSOP is a grassroots organization and told her a little of what we do.
Susan explained how InterValley Project began and the broader goals that developed as it grew.
Brother Paul explained the format for the candidates’ forum and stated that we expect to have 1,200 attendees.
Cathy talked about how we determine what issues are important to our organization that we want the candidates to answer. She gave Heather a copy of the questions that each candidate will be asked.
Brother Paul told Heather about some of the issues that we have worked on with success.
Ruth talked more about how GSOP started 8 years ago. She stressed to Heather that we really want Barack Obama to attend our event

Heather explained that scheduling is done no more than 6 weeks in advance so his September schedule is not set as yet.

In evaluation we all felt that she was receptive to our request to have Senator Obama attend. Ruth will follow up with her.

The room we entered had great photos and news clippings on the walls, done quite artfully.
Marcia Nelson