1500 people Show Up to Make Mike Coffman Squirm

(XP on Square State)

I went to four rallies during the last couple of weeks for health care. For each of those rallies, I facebook messaged, emailed and called hundreds of my friends to death to get them to get others to attend. So did the amazing folks at SEIU/Change That Works, Health Care for All Colorado, and Organizing For America. Ed Perlmutter's in Brighton, the Nancy Pelosi event in Denver, the rally at the Capitol - all were exciting and in the neighborhood of 300-500 people, or so.

We were told not to bother with Mike Coffman's Town Hall since he was a Republican. Arapahoe County will get tons of Republican people to show up, and that kind of rally does not need extra media attention, we were told.

But we didn't listen to the "experts".

Instead, we took our memories of Mike Coffman purging thousands of our (mostly Democratic) votes last year, and we turned them into positive energy. We recycled our disgust thinking about how his office gave out incorrect information to voter registrars, then denied it later, and with it, we created passion. We took our anger at his "No" votes on everything President Barack Obama has tried to accomplish thus far, and we turned it into teamwork. We turned out half of the 1500 people in Littleton last night, armed with questions, facts, passion and certainty.

We knocked their socks off. We - the volunteers who turned Arapahoe County blue in 2008, Arapahope Community Team members like Todd Mata, Donna Galassi and Dr. Carol Blackard, and Arapahoe County Organizing for America folks like Donovan ODell, Betty Harris, and so many others.

This happened in Congressional District 6, the district many state "experts" refuse to believe will ever go Democratic -- the area the CO Democratic Party doesn't want to pour money into to help us out. "Land that Dems Forgot", if you will, despite the fact Arapahoe County went blue for the first time in more than half a century, and Douglas County was the fastest growing county in the US during most of the last decade (just ask all the NY and CA transplants how they plan to vote).

I remember in early January being told I was crazy to host a Drinking Liberally chapter in Centennial every week. "No one does it every week", they said. There aren't enough Democrats in Arapahoe County or all of the 6th Congressional District to meet every week. Well, tell that to the 20 people, on average, who attend the Drinking Liberally Centennial chapter at Bistro Al Vino every Monday night.

Want to see the impossible? Next November, Democrats are going to beat Mike Coffman in the November election. Lt. Col(ret) John Flerlage will be our Congressman. We are going to be known as the county that did the impossible. Don't believe me?

Watch.

There is nothing this Living Liberally Chapter leader loves to uncork more than another bottle of "Whoop-ass", and serving it up to Democratic friends in CO-06.

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