Remember that girl from "Kids for Kerry"?

[rox63]

She's also torn about the 2008 race: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2788554

[politicasista]

1. I remember her

I don't blame her for holding out for Gore either.

Seeing Kerry lose in November 2004 was crushing. She'd worked 10 months on his campaign, sacrificing summer camp to long days at Kerry's Oakland campaign headquarters, and she says she enjoyed a strong personal connection with the candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. It was Heinz Kerry, in fact, who phoned Ilana at home ("I was eating pancakes with my brother") and personally extended the invitation to speak at the convention.

After the defeat, she said, "I was depressed for at least a year. ... I still went on, but I was depressed because all those wonderful experiences were gone. And also the wonderful experiences I was looking forward to, like going to the White House, and staying in touch with John Kerry."

:grouphug:


Just another reminder of how bad the hate/fearmongering was (didn't something like this happen to Alexandra too?)

The Wexlers don't want their city of residence identified in this article -- a caution they've had to take since Ilana became a target of online harassment. After she spoke at the convention, her father says, "There was this ultra-conservative group that listed our home address on their Web site. All day long we would get (computer) viruses sent to us."

It got worse. "People would write to the Kids for Kerry Web site saying, " 'Ilana, I know you support John Kerry. But do you know he tries to promote the murder of children? He's for abortion.' It was crazy. This was a 12-year-old girl they were doing this to."

:grr:


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/31/MNGSCOVGGQ1.DTL&feed=rss.news