Birthday, Birthing a New Congress

I celebrate my 24th birthday this year with a family and friends gathering at my cousin's house, amidst busy preparations for November 7th, the mid-term Congressional election. On Election Day, voters resoundingly renounce the Bush agenda in Iraq and vote in a Democrat majority in the House and Senate. On Election Day, Sam, Marie, Judy and I drive around all day getting out the vote, holding impromptu vigils, and at one point we are driving through strip malls and residential neighborhoods with Marie on the bull horn saying, "Give peace a vote! Fire Pombo! Quita Pombo!" It was a magnificent effort. One notable defeat was that Aimee Allison, a veteran of the Gulf War and a phenomenal woman who stands up for peace and justice, did not win a seat on the Oakland City Council.