Dean campaign in Iowa providing child care so folks can go to caucus

[mandyky]

How's that for a sense of community? I love being a Deaniac - I only wish I could afford to make these trips. But I can write letters. I am writing to NH folks this week.

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Mandy--- Change 'Dean***s!

That's not acceptable terminology, under the rules. :)

[Jack_Dawson]

2. I think it's OK as long as it's y'all addressing y'all

[mandyky]

3. Thanks

But damn it, I am proud to be a Deaniac!!

[aquart]

4. May they remember the importance of child care

After the elections.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. Actually, this is not unique to the Dean campaign

The Kucinich campaign in Cedar Falls, where I canvassed, is also making childcare available. I imagine that all the other campaigns are doing something similar. It's a sensible organizing technique for a caucus or any event (meeting, tag sale, rally) that you're trying to get people to come to in great numbers. Same with rides for seniors.

[chocolateeater]

6. That's really cool!

:bounce: :bounce:

[bearfartinthewoods]

14. it's also dangerous...pray nothing happens

[Adjoran]

7. Gephardt is

providing child-care facilities, too.

[arewethereyet]

8. I can't see leaving my kids with strangers

even if they have the right button. be interesting to see if it matters.

[lovedems]

9. Having 4 kids, that rocks! Seriously, that is very cool.

I would probably take my 6 & 7 year olds with me if I lived in Iowa so they could see how the process works and watch their mom and dad get involved. They are indoctrinated into the democratic party. It isn't a secret in our house that we despise the chimp! They are so funny in their innocence. They say things like "we are democrats" or "when I get old, I won't vote for a republican" Ahhh, to be innocent again.

[funky_bug]

12. My kid too (one of them anyhow)

My 11yr old son went with me to the FL convention. He had some spending money, so he bought himself a button showing chimpy reading a kids' book UPSIDE DOWN.

He wore it to school for three weeks before anyone noticed! He was so disappointed, because he had his rebuttal all worked out:

Question: "Why are you wearing that button? Don't you know that he is our president?"

Reply: "I figure the president that thinks we should drop everything and read (the beloved D.E.A.R) should actually know HOW to read, and since his advisors are the only ones reading, then he probably DOESN'T know how to hold a book."

Ah... the innocence of youth. Thanks, No Child Left Behind... you HAVE taught my son something very valuable.

My other child (12yr old girl) says if she were voting, she'd wouldn't vote for Clark because "Madonna Sucks!" Then she asked if that was okay, since she heard Clark was a republican. I asked her where she heard that, and she said, "After The Simpsons." Good ol' Fox.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. I have an 11 year old son, too

and I have taken him to the polls ever since he was old enough to walk. On the way in, he gets a "lecture" on the importance of voting and on the way out he gets another "lecture" on the importance of voting! LOL! The child will NEVER NOT vote. :7

He met General Clark at a fundraiser in Chicago. When it was his turn to shake his hand, he asked Wes..."What is your position on the draft?" Wes said..."OH, we don't need a draft! I'm against the draft!" Then Wes says, "Let me ask you this." He put his hands on my son's shoulders and looked him in the eye and asked him..."If we "needed" you, would YOU volunteer?" My wonderful son said..."No!" LOL! Eeeek! We laughed about that for days. He told a military man, a 4 star general...NO, I will not volunteer for the military. I loved it!

I just love kids. They're priceless! :)

[funky_bug]

10. I think it is very cool!

And I'll tell ya what, if I was undecided with a gaggle of fidgeting children, and I found out a camp was willing to wrestle them into a corner so that I could go stand in a corner... well God bless them, and they got MY vote!

Good for you, Dean et al!

[SheilaT]

11. Dupe, sorry.

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[SheilaT]

13. Child care is something that Democrats

always consider important. When I participated in caucuses in Colorado in 1988, it was okay to bring my two young children, then one and five to the first caucus, and then went I went to the county convention which was at a public high school, child care was provided. LOTS of people brought young kids.

Democrats care about these things, and that's why I'm a Democrat.

And I understand that Dean is especially concerned with these things.