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On Saturday, June 28, the Barack Obama campaign held 4,000
house parties across the nation in an effort to continue to
generate the grassroots support and enthusiasm for the
candidacy of the junior senator from Illinois and
presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president.
Here in Toledo, four such events were among the estimated
200 that were held in Ohio.
At 2:00 p.m., Rose Eliis and Twila Wheaton brought together
about two dozen Obama supporters at the Kent Branch library
to view a tape of the candidate, to listen to an Obama
campaign worker from Illinois and to share their concerns
and enthusiasm with each other.
Other house parties were hosted by Tracee Perryman Stewart
at the Center for Hope Baptist Church at 3 p.m.; by Dan
Garcia at 6 p.m. and by Marty Skeldon at 7 p.m.
At the Kent Branch session, Tommy Brown, who just recently
graduated from high school and is planning to spend the
summer as an Obama volunteer, confidently guided an audience
that one member estimated as having an average age of 60
through their thoughts about the relevant issues for this
campaign.
Brown said in his introduction to the audience that he
learned during his government class last year that “it
you’re not pissed off, you’re not paying attention.”
Brown spoke of Obama’s sacrifice early in his career after
graduating from Harvard Law School and being in a position
to “make a ton of money” of coming back to the community to
help organize.
“I know I’m working for the next president of the United
States,” said Brown. The audience agreed wholeheartedly with
that sentiment.
The purpose of the Unite for Change events is to spark an
interest among the audience members in holding such events
on their own during the upcoming months of the campaign
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