Interviewing for Dennis

For a change of pace now, I can report that I had to do two interviews this weekend for the campaign. One went up on the Huffington Post Saturday night when the news was flying about Dennis being excluded from the debate. I got a call from the national campaign that I had to be ready to interview Melissa Etheridge in about an hour or so. The only quiet place I could go to was the back seat of my car and so I went there and talked to her and kept notes and came back to the office to write it up.
Then on Sunday morning, Viggo Mortensen flew in on the red eye from California to help get Dennis' message out. He was furious that he had been excluded from the debate as well. So, I spent about 30 minutes talking to him in person. He was an interesting guy and had a lot to say about the history of his ideas, that is, he really thinks through the greed issue ruining this country and as for me that is my big theme now too.
Corporate greed has ruined any chance we have for a true democracy. It was enjoyable to watch Mortensen rail on and on against it so that I could sit back and let him use his energy to get it all going out there. I rested and listened.
Then I took a nice walk. There is actually time to go for walks when you get left out of the more general transport. Manchester is not a big town. At least the downtown is not big. As an old mill town it is impressive to look at. To walk through it on a Sunday during the primary season it is even more impressive especially when I was thinking about how to construct the article about talking to Viggo Mortensen.
Now I am thinking about all the other important issues that this campaign deals with on a daily basis and how they can all get lost if we don't all keep up with them. That is part of what really makes a campaign, the keeping track of all the issues as well as all the people involved in getting the word out about them.
Melissa and Vigo lent their voices to the disgust with ABC.
But here in Manchester, day in and day out, there are many people working most of the 24 hours of the day to help get Dennis' message out.
I hope to begin giving them a chance to talk up too on the blog.