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Dogger is going to do the entry today


Diana would be doing the entry today but she just got back from her very first precinct meeting and she volunteered! She volunteered for so much that she is now holding her head in her hands and rocking back and forth.

Diana volunteered to go to the Democratic Party County Convention and to be on a committee! She and the other members are going to go through the voter list and purge out dead folks and people who moved away. Diana doesn’t know what she was thinking. She was just planning to nod and smile.

She said it was fun though, although there should have been more then 10 people in attendance as she learned that her precinct had 1800 registered Democrats. She learned that once upon a time the Democratic Party ran this neighborhood like a machine and it was very organized with block captains, and quadrant captions and many, many lists and maps and committees. She also was told that only 600 of those 1800 registered democrats voted in the last gubernatorial election. She may also have gotten herself the job of going door to door on her street to get out the vote. Diana has her work cut out for her. She is not very excited about this as some of her neighbors scare her and she is afraid that neighbors who do not scare her will be scared of her.

A brave part of Diana sees herself handing out voter registration cards to her new people across the street and to the disaffected next door. They need to vote too. Diana likes people to vote.

A few of the folks Diana met at the meeting know her through me!, they see us on our walks everyday and the people were pleased to meet her, and they told her the names of their dogs that bark at us everyday! they also thought she lived in a different neighborhood.

Diana was also surprised that she was not the only person who looked like her and she wasn’t the youngest person there. There should have been a lot of young people there.

Okay! lets thank Dogger for her hard work! I'm recovered from my volunteer-ers remorse

The neighborhood is full of young people. Young disaffected people who are the most in need of representation and who must stand up and be counted. The very people most likely to stay in their seats and not bother, who all ready have plenty of evidence that their reps neither see them or care about what their communities need. They have seen the lack of proper reference material at the library, the lack of decent grocery stores, restaurants, and video rentals – services and employment opportunities that other neighborhoods take for granted. In this neighborhood they get the torn up streets, the abandoned houses, the litter, the pay day loan places, and the general lack of attention from both the city and the state. They don’t have to just see these inequalities, they have lived them and watching their representatives not caring about them or their needs.

Whew. While I was doing that Dogger was shredding a roll of toilet paper. I checked her food and there is no mention of TP in the ingredients. I wonder how much protean is in TP? I just love cleaning up shredded stuff, between Dogger and The Kitty I could have my own Ticker Tape factory.