Something Is Happening...

but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Rove? Last night my wife and I hosted a house party promoted by MoveOn PAC and organized around the movie Fahrenheit 9/11. The draw was a conference call with Michael Moore. We tried to cap the number of guests at 50 but wound up with 85. The purpose of the party was to discuss the movie and to prepare people to make a difference on Novemeber 2 by participating in actions to register voters, to persuade voters to vote for John Kerry and finally to get out the vote. 15% of the guests agreed to host a party on July 11 when MoveOn members will reach out to hundreds of thousands of unregistered voters in key swing states.

We were one of 4,600 house parties all across the country and attended by over 55,000 people. Our son Charlie organized a similar but larger town meeting at the UNLV Law School in Las Vegas. He had tried to cap the number of attendees at 200 (the size of the room) and registered 315 guests before being forced to turn people away at the door.