Me and Momma for Obama…
Less than 24 hours before I jump into the new job, but that’s another blog. Sets up this one though.
With my time off yesterday I picked up Jen and we met M.O.M. for lunch at The Mixx on Main behind the KC Library Plaza Branch. If you’re local, and you haven’t been there, then you’re not really local. They’re “the best Jerry, the best!”
While ordering a man walked by me in a suit and a ball cap. I always notice people dressed that way because it’s a bold move (he must drive a Ford). Anyway, he had on an Obama ‘08 hat, but it wasn’t one you can buy from BarackObama.com. In fact, the swag you can buy at the Obama.com store is actually pretty lame in terms of design. So, I stopped him, “Hey, where’d you get that hat?”
I made it!
Really? That’s great. I don’t like the ones on the Obama site.
Oh, they suck. That’s why I made these. Making shirts too, they say ‘Me and Momma for Obama!’
I love it!
It’s a coalition I’m helping start here in Kansas City.
Then he wrote down the website for me on a napkin, www.meandmommaforobama.com. I chuckled at the name and thought it was just a clever rhyming name like Obama-rama and the others that people are using to be clever. But I was wrong.
While it is a clever name, it is an actual coalition with a fantastic purpose and mission and I am proud to see it forming here in Kansas City. Me & Momma for Obama is a Midwestern coalition of Obama supporters targeted at single women who are heads of households. How I understand it, MAMFO intends to intricately involve these women and people from the “Brown and Black Community” (the sites phrase, not mine) with the issues that are primary to they and their family’s survival (healthcare, education, jobs, job security, etc). Furthermore, MAMFO has committed to raising voter turn out by 15% in poverty stricken census tracts of MO, KS, NE, IL & IA.
I love this! What I am noticing more and more is that for the first time since maybe the ‘92 Election people are actually excited about candidates. Of course, in ‘92 people were excited about candidate, singular. This time the excitement is on both sides, and I think it can only be good. The fact that people are paying attention and truly pushing for great options says something about America and where we are and where we want to be.
Back to MAMFO. Watch their site, check there updates, and if you feel so inclined, when their store is implemented (sometime this week, I’m told), buy some of their product. You’ll be helping good people and helping to elect a great man!
Tags: politics
