Friday, April 7, 2017

Fundraiser for Jon Ossoff Brings Hope!

(Jon Ossoff is the thirty-year-old guy who's running for the House of Representatives, hoping to take the seat left vacant by Tom Price, when he was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services.)

I really enjoyed the fundraiser for Jon Ossaff yesterday early evening.  

  I got to meet Markos Moulitsas,  the person who founded the Daily Kos in 2002 !  

See how blissed-out I look  to be standing beside this rock star of activism!



  I also met  the former president of the Sierra Club and a woman who is an activist with Clean Tech. 

I was so impressed that Jonathan Axelrad of DLA Piper (a law firm) let the fundraisers use his law offices!

I also enjoyed meeting Christine Guo and Mark Rossetti, who organized the fundraiser and greeted people.  I was the first one there, so I had the chance to get to talk to them and tell them about people I know from Georgia--most of whom are Trump supporters.  (A friend whose maiden of honor I was back in 1964 wrote on Facebook the morning after the presidential election, "God has given our nation a second chance.")

I like meeting Jon Ossoff's former roommates Mark Rossetti and Richard Matsui--who were in a barbershop quartet with him, and even though I know this is a trivial comment, I think Jon Ossoff is cute!

It was good to see a mixture of ages, and in this picture you can even see a mixture of races!  



Mark Rossi must be the same age as Jon Ossoff--30!--and Mark's  dad was there too!

It was fun to see Jon Ossoff on Skype, and there was a young family from the 6th district in Georgia, who just happened to be in San Francisco.  With her little girl in her arms, the mother spoke, referring to her 20 years as a "lonely Democrat ," who's starting to feel some hope!  (Shari and Arya?)



The food was vegetarian but not vegan  (because I don't like raw veggies without something to dip them in, but I enjoyed the wine!


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