Last Day to Register Voters in Ohio

On Monday we begin our usual morning routine of driving to the Starbucks and parking the truck directly in front of the Bush headquarters office. Only today, I go into the Chipotle Grill to get a burrito. My shirt and politics are so inflammatory to the manager of the restaurant, that one of his employees offers to buy my burrito for me, because the whole staff is so excited to see someone who agrees with their anti-Bush politics. Awesome- free burritos. Add this to the tally of cool sidelines to Codepink work: amazing new friends, free concerts, celebrity sightings, pink slips and boas, coffee, and now burritos. Who knew?

Sam and I pick up Ariel and we head over to a strip mall to register voters. I walk around a low-income community going door-to-door registering voters. Then we all board the subway and we ride back and forth on all the lines for five hours registering voters. We register so many people and talk with so many more about the importance of getting this man out of the whitehouse. It is incredible. I speak with a large Orthodox family and with several Spanish-speakers and we see a billboard for Milwaukee’s Best beer that says “Do your wife a favor: Save a glass.” It is the beer that’s brewed for a man. Whatever.

We get to the Board of Elections office just in time for their 9 p.m. deadline and turn in all our voter reg. forms. We see the last man get registered in Cuyahoga County. We are interviewed by the news and Ariel and I get to sing our Codepink cheer song. We go home to Ann’s house and walk in on a living room of folks painting large pink banners for the Edwards-Cheney debate the next day. All is in action. It’s all happening.