Breakfast for Obama at Ireland's Inn Cafe, Potlatch, ID--January 26, 2008

My wife and I hosted an event in the progressive hotbed of Potlatch, ID for Barack Obama. We created a group of "Fiddlers Ridge Residents for Obama" (ok, we were thinking _really_ locally...) and thought it might be good to have some kind of event to create some excitement about the upcoming Democratic Idaho caucus in early February. So we hosted a discussion breakfast at Ireland's Inn Café on Saturday, January 26, 2008 from 8-10 AM. This was one of only 3 Barack Obama events scheduled in a 100 mile radius of Potlatch prior to the Super Tuesday caucus.

Our breakfast at Ireland's Inn Café was quite a success! We had 18 attendees. Because of local media coverage from Vera White's Friday column in the Moscow Pullman Daily News, we had many unexpected people show up. Matt Nappe, a field organizer for the Obama campaign, brought knowledge, information, and Obama goodies.

Shirley Ringo and her husband, John, came to the breakfast too. Shirley remarked with some surprise, "Are you ALL from the Potlatch area?" to which we all said yes (going to show there's more than the two of us out here). Steve Banks had told his friends from Troy and Genesee that he was going to the "Obama-rama" in Potlatch, and they laughed and said something like "have fun by yourself."

Many attendees came to find out more information about Senator Obama and reasons people supported him while others were there simply as supporters. A question posed by Rev. Larry Vieth from the Potlatch Lutheran and Presbyterian church got the conversation started.