Election Day as an Intern
Congratulations! We elected our first openly LGTBQ+ woman to become the next Governor of our great state! As many of you know, I was lucky enough to serve as an intern on this absolutely historic campaign, and when I was invited to Boston to celebrate this historic down-ballot race, I could not say no to going.
The day started off with a 5:30 alarm. I was up and at it at about 6:00 am, going door to door and doing what we call "lit dropping", essentially, we have a brochure type of thing that we just place at people's doors reminding them to vote. I had finished my first round of lit dropping at about 7:00- so I headed to my local polling location to hold out a sign.
At 9:30, I was at the Coordinated Campaign office, and ready to go with my boss to do some more lit dropping. What I didn't know is that we were going to try to hit 2,592 doors all in one day. Highly unlikely, but I was feeling optimistic.
4:00 comes around. And at this point, we had only made it to 400 doors. We called it quits after about 12 miles and 30,000 steps.
I was on the road to Boston for the election watch party that night. We made it to Boston around 6;30 and grabbed a bite to eat before going into the venue- the Fairmont Hotel (absolutely stunning if you have the chance to go).
9:00 pm came around and that is when victory speeches were given.
Kim Driscoll- Lt. Governor-Elect, gave a speech. She and I had talked back in October about what the word HERstory meant, and how I was going to make it happen for her. Kim Driscoll used HERstory in her victory speech. I was in awe.
Maura Healey got up to speak after, and of course it was so empowering. Women won 5/6 down-ballot races that night.
With 15 miles and 41.000 steps walked that day, I can proudly say I have never been happier to call Massachusetts my home.
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