Work on a political campaign

my friend to come with me to an Obama meetup tonight. Actually, she says the election in NH convinced her. But whatever, I am the one who invited her to come. We will see if there is anything I actually have time to sign up for.

I’m going to a fundraiser Tuesday for a candidate for governor. He’s going to be there. I’m pretty excited, I’ve never been to a fundraiser this nice before.

Still haven’t done any real campaign work. I just don’t have enough time these days to commit to anything. I need to figure out what I can do that doesn’t involve a 3-day trip to New Hampshire.

Meeting Saturday at 11 in NW for Barack Obama supporters.

Make-up property class Saturday at 10.

I might just have to skip out of class early.

Just kidding, class isn’t this Saturday! I now have no excuse. Message me if you’re in DC and want to go with.

The session with our section’s peer advisors gave me an idea. I’ve been thinking about getting a legal job in the third or fourth year of law school, but I’m not sure what I want to do exactly, or how the timing would work. I’ve also thought it might be cool to get a job as a law clerk for a judge.

So the peer advisors were talking about how a bunch of people in their class transferred to the full-time program because it was an election year and they all lost their jobs when the Kerry campaign ended. I realized that at the end of my second year I’ll be done with this long-term project at work and it will be in the middle of the 2008 election year. It would be a perfect chance for me to work full-time on a campaign for the summer and even through November so that I have time to look for another job by winter. I have plenty of time to think this over, of course, but I’m a little excited already…

Today kicks off the summer campaign season for the 2006 Congressional election. There are 33 competitive seats in the U.S. Senate this year.

I worked on campaigns helping my parents when I was a kid, and I’ve always voted in primaries and general elections in Kentucky and Georgia, but I haven’t actively joined a candidate’s campaign since high school. During the 2000 election I spent an afternoon mailing postcards from the Kentucky Democratic Headquarters and I was a nonpartisan volunteer for the media exit polls reporting the vote count for a particular precinct in Frankfort. That was a lot of fun.