For all those who still use the “one person can’t make a difference” excuse, a little story.
I moved to Weber county exactly one month before the precinct caucuses. While I did know a couple of people close to my new home before the official move date, I’m still largely a newcomer. Six months ago I connected with an old friend from my high school days. He lives in the next town over. We finally got together for lunch two weeks before caucus night.
“Do you follow politics at all?” I asked.
He replied with “I usually just yell at the TV.”
“You wanna do something to make a difference?”
And that’s how it started. Two weeks later, he’s actively involved in the Senate race and is pulling me into a county race. Of course, I continued to work on getting to know people and managed to get a respectable number of folks to the caucus, many for their first time. But this friend of mine… he’s the one this story is about. This one person, in two weeks, all by himself, was: elected precinct vice chair (he didn’t feel ready to be chair), state delegate, county delegate, and…
…he brought 35 people to his precinct caucus, all but five of them for the very first time.
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