Might as well face it, you're addicted to phone banks

Must...stop...dialing...fingers.

Volunteers at a Palo Alto phone bank, Nov. 23.

Nope, those who became addicted to working a phone bank couldn't stop after Nov. 4. Some got their dialing fix by starting phone banks to lobby for different dog breeds for the First Puppy.
But a more immediate need was to continue the Campaign for Change, so the phoning went down to Georgia where a runoff election is set for Dec. 2 in a U.S. Senate race.

Rakhi Singh (l) and Barbara Kerckhoff
manage the phone bank.

In a Palo Alto office and another location in South San Francisco, volunteers showed up Sunday to call voters in Savannah and other communities to urge them to vote for Democratic candidate Jim Martin. Martin is in a runoff with Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss, who is seeking a second term.

One of the many volunteers
at the Palo Alto phone bank

About 20 people spent part of Sunday at a Palo Alto phone bank telling voters in Georgia that a vote for Martin brings the Senate closer to a 60-seat majority for Democrats and a filibuster-proof margin. The only other Senate race undecided, which could seal the deal, is in Minnesota between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken. A recount is currently underway there.

The Palo Alto phone bank was calling Georgia to
drum up support for Democrat Jim Martin
in a runoff US Senate election.

The phone banking followed a town hall event Thursday night at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto, attended by more than 300 people. After a pot luck dinner, Obama campaign workers discussed how we would keep the momentum going and use the campaign infrastructure that helped get Obama elected to support his policies in office and to help other community organization efforts on the local, state and national level.
To quote Bob Dylan, "The times, they are a changing!"