Following the campaign, November 2
From Karin Caifa:
THE LONG WALK
In New York on Friday, three more walkers joined Jonathan Meier on his cross-country trek to raise awareness for the campaign. While walking from the John Lennon memorial in Central Park to the United Nations, I had an opportunity to chat with the walkers. Meier, who turned 21 Friday, is a veteran of long walks. Last year, he marched from his college town of Ames, Iowa, to Washington, D.C., in the name of peace. For the most part, the walk has been smooth, he says, with the exception of some freakishly early winter weather he encountered in New Hampshire. It caught him so off guard, he says, that he became dehydrated and had to sit out sick the following day. Host families have been providing him with breakfast and dinner, but lunch can be a challenge since, like the candidate Kucinich, he follows a vegan diet, meaning absolutely no animal products. Makes pit stops at Mickey D’s out of the question. Meier says he caught up with Kucinich in New Hampshire last week. I asked if the peace candidate had any advice for the peace walker. “He was really cool,” Meier told me. “He told me he was going to send me a submarine deck suit that was warm for weather below 70 below or something.” Uhhh??? Meier paused. “I don’t know what he was talking about,” he laughed. “I thought it was kind of weird myself.” He was joined by the father-and-son team of Tom and Tak Schmitz (Tak is 4 years shy of the voting age but wanted to walk nonetheless) and Clara Wilson. The route heads south to Washington then west through Cleveland, Chicago and Des Moines, then down to Oklahoma City and through the southwest, ending up in San Francisco on February 29.
FUND-RAISING GOAL EXCEEDED
The Kucinich campaign exceeded its goal of raising $400,000 during the month of October, with the amount in excess of $400,000 going directly to media buys in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
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