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Preparing to Depart Iowa

Well, we finally have solidified our exit plans out of Iowa. It was very difficult to get our "friends" to give us a ride to the train station in Ottumwa. At first the word from several people was "you're on your own" and "thanks for all your hard work, we appreciate it". The intensity of our request heightened through the night. At some point people from New Mexico laughed at our situation which made us very sadly disappointed. But what do you do, thats "politics", right?

We wish to thank Chet Guinn who called David Rogers, and ...for making calls to the senior level staffers who then got the people who told us "we are on our own" to really start helping us.

If this were in my town, Los Angeles, and on any campaign I was affiliated with or managing, you bet I would help my volunteers. In fact, there has been many times on local, state, state-wide and congressional campaigns where my volunteers needed help and we treated them like family. Volunteers, staff and the candidate are always family.

We chalked it up as, perhaps, a mid western thing.

We will have plenty of time on the train to think about all this. :)

Latino Outreach for Iowa Caucuses by Erika Aguilar

During this campaign I did canvassing and phone banking. The majority of the time I talked to Latinos on the phone. The majority of Latinos don’t know about the caucusing process in Iowa. They were also surprised that Richardson was a Latino himself. One of the main issues that they always brought up was the health care benefit, and the war in Iraq. I’m not going to say that all my experiences with the people I talked to were good, I had some rude people and I also had some nice people. I think it all depends on what time you call lol.

Latinos in Iowa have not really realized the power and influence they could have in Iowa and in affecting the presidential primary. They have enough influence here to sway campaigns but have yet to unify. Maybe they won’t realize or choose to exercise this great power.

Durante esta campana me toco caminar puerta a puerta y hacer llamadas a Latinos. La majoria de la gente no save el proceso de caucusing en Iowa. Tambien se sorprendieron al escuchar que Richardson es Latino. Una de las cosas que mencionaban al hablar era el plan de salud, y la guerra en Iraq. No voy a decir que todas mis experiencias fueron buenas, la gente era buena pero habeces no tan buenas haha.

Latinos en Iowa no comprender la magnitud de que ellos tienen el poder y la influencia ellos tienen aqui en Iowa que puede afectar a los primary. Ellos tienen la influencia para cambiar las campanas pero tienen que unirse. Ellos tienen que entender o escojer como usar el poder que ellos tienen aqui en Iowa.

-Erika Aguilar

La Opinion Newspaper Covers Erika & Noemi

Caucus Day

The Sun Rises in America... or Iowa

The sun rises in Iowa this morning with the entire nation eagerly watching who Iowans will support. Late last night we did a midnight lit drop to ensure our voters are aware of their caucus locations, we lucked out and were assigned a more upscale neighborhood,  this was a long way from the hoods of Iowa we have begun to know so well after walking day after day through where streets are not properly cleared of snow, and the now infamous chase down by a crackhead.  Today we go into overdrive and  mobilize Richardson support to their caucus locations now it's on to victory!

- Greg & Cesar 

CNN Live - Erika, Greg & Cesar Next to Bill !!!!!

INTERMISSION WITH YANN TIERSEN - Sur le fil & Prokofiëv

DANCE OF THE KNIGHTS
By Prokofiëv from Romeo and Juliette

Noemi's Road Runner Report

Happy New Year! Today was a very good way to start my year. I had many good experiences out of this Campaign (good and bad). We gave everything we had hopefully it pays off on Thursday! It was an awesome experience to have a chance to get to meet Bill Richardson. It was freezing today. I went outside canvassing door to door without gloves and my hands literally froze. It hurt so bad I couldn't help it so I cried. It was a really bad pain. Besides that I've been having lots of fun here.

-Noemi

Happy New Year! Des Moines style with the Gov.

We brought in the New Year with the Governor and hundreds of our new friends on the campaign. They are all very good, dedicated, and hard working people. We are honored to have spent our New Years away from home (1600 miles away in the freezing cold) to be part of this great experience with an awesome candidate we truly and sincerly believe in. Have a great New Year!