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Pacifist Patriot

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8. If you can stomach it, I have a mommy brag about my middle son.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 12:37 PM
Jul 2020

He was a freshman at FSU this past year and finished his second semester online after Spring Break. His original plans entailed getting a job this summer. When the pandemic shut downs resulted in widespread job loss and job reduction, we decided as a family that we would prefer any available jobs go to people who need them to survive and provide for their families. Instead, since he had to be home anyway, the kid chose a couple of courses already designed to be online classes to take this summer.

But that's not really what I'm bragging about. In addition to online course work, he has volunteered with Organizing Together 2020 and spent hours and hours texting people about register to vote and mail away ballots. He contacted a Democratic candidate for state rep in our district and talked himself into a paid job (very modest monthly stipend) as a virtual field coordinator to organize volunteers and coordinate texting, emailing, social media, and phone banking efforts for the campaign. I love that he wants to make a difference, even in a district with very little chance of Democratic success in that race.



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