The girls and I went to Mike Huckabee's Dallas Campaign Headquarters to make get out the vote phone calls. When we first got there, there was hardly anybody there and so we got our list of numbers and I made a couple of example calls. I wanted them to get involved, but I wasn't sure I could talk them into it. After I made about 5 calls I offered $10 to the first kid to make a phone call. Hannah, their BFF, jumped on that and after much blushing, giggling and practicing of the script, she made her first call. Luckily an answering machine picked up and so she just had to read the script into the machine. Tory, of course, not willing to be beaten started making calls. I then offered a game/video to the kid that made the most phone calls. Pretty soon Abby decided she didn't want to be left out and so she started making calls. I was so proud of their willingness to do this. These are the same girls that talk so softly at restaurants that waiters can't hear them. After about 15 minutes they were professionals at making the calls. Of course, when they got a live person they would look at me with a panicked look on their face and I would take the call. Then, after about an hour they got brave enough to talk to a real person.


Tory's best call was to a mom who had already voted for Mike Huckabee and whose son is serving in Iraq and has already voted for Huckabee.

Hannah's funniest call was to a man who said "Let me stop you there and just let you know that I got into a fight in high school and so now I can't vote." She started cracking up and so did he.

Abby weirdest call was to a woman who replied to the question, "Can we count on your support in the primary?" with a slow, drugged sounding "Surrre". Then of course she got a kick out of the name Gay something or other.

We all got a kick out of the names. We had a Mr. Kitten, a Mr. Bacon and a Mr. Pigg and then to top it of we had a Boisewetter or something like that. Needless to say we had an interesting evening.

Tory wants to go back with me tomorrow. Oh, and we got special pins to show we volunteered at a campaign headquarters.


The campaign workers were so glad to see some young people involved in the process.