Organizer, organization-builder, strategist. Previously Executive Director of @MoveOn Civic Action & fellow @UChipolitics. Mostly off Twitter.
Jul 10, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Shout out to this sweet guy who's been waiting near the esplanade at the @ChicagoBotanic Garden for something like an hour, ring and flowers in hand, pacing back and forth with a goofy grin on his face ❤️
There's a whole crowd now assembled, trying to stay cool and inconspicuous. And now HERE COMES THE LADY (white blouse) with her two friends. They're now trying to delay her near Romeo by making her take their photo
Dec 17, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
It's 13 degrees w/ wind chill in our town of 75,000 people, and there's such a turnout that the police have shut down much of downtown & have a copter overhead. "What's happening now isn't political; it's constitutional," says State Sen. Laura Fine, to (teeth-chattering) cheers.
.@JillWineBanks, a Watergate prosector, is speaking to a huge #ImpeachmentEve rally crowd in suburban Chicago: "this is worse than Watergate."
She draws a direct line to elections: "what you need to do from here is get on the bus, go to Iowa, and GET OUT THE VOTE."