...it's for a cause. In the last week, I've met any number of prominent politicians, and a few celebrities. On Thursday, I went to an amazing breakfast where, among other remarkable women from politics, the military and elsewhere, I met
Roberta Flack. More on that breakfast later (once I get my camera downloaded), but suffice it to say she was very interesting, discussing her past as a schoolteacher in rural North Carolina, then in the inner city of Washington D.C. Fascinating.
We also had
Ron Livingston here, stumping for Kerry-Edwards. Literally. They had him out on the streets going door to door. Now, he's from Iowa (grew up in Marion), so this made a certain amount of sense.
I gather
Sharon Stone has also been here, again stumping for the Dems. And billionaire
George Soros. I gather Rudy Guiliani has been here for Bush.
It really is amusing to be in the capital of a battleground state during a close election race. Saturday morning, I was at the Dem Victory 2004 HQ, getting some precinct captain training and info, and listening to some Gulf vets discussing the war. After the first of the vets spoke, a man came up the side of the room, in sweaty jogging clothes, and was handed the mike. We all realized that it was our Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, out for a Saturday run--he'd stopped by to give us a little rah-rah time (picture to follow). Some out-of-towners who were there, including a couple of the vets, were flabbergasted that the Governor would do that. I said "Welcome to Iowa!".
