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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:17 PM Original message |
What got you into politics? What was your start. I grew up in Ottawa in a neighbourhood |
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GReedDiamond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Viet Nam War... |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. The No Nukes movement in the early 80's. |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. 7th grade social studies teacher. |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 11:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. That is about when I got interested too. |
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Tobin S. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
4. 9/11 |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
5. The draft. |
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Graybeard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. I was given a book of Adlai Stevenson's campaign speeches. |
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Raffi Ella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
7. 9/11. |
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era veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Family very political, VietFuckingNam, and The 'Movement' |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
8. my friend taking me to Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004 |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
10. Don't Ask, Don't Tell, HIV, and the gay-marriage debate. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
11. My disgust with Reagan getting elected when I was 14. |
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davsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. I can remember arguing politics with my dad in the late 60's. |
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Bladian (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
13. Damn you for asking this question. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. Mom carried me on her shoulders to a McGovern rally in '72 |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Florida. 2000 |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
17. 7th Grade, Mr. Yarnell's civics class, 1976 at Hedrick Jr. High |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
18. I absolutely hated politics, and stayed away except to vote |
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Worried senior (105 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. When I married |
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mvd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. My parents are very political. So were my grandfather.. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
21. I turned four in 1970 and fourteen in 1980 |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
22. It's not a choice I made |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
23. grew up in a very political, grassroots family. grandfather was a judge. n/t |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. I got sick of the Reagan-era crap. I'd diddled around with campaigns and activism |
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BrendaBrick (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
25. MAD magazine in Junior High School. |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 08:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Mad's skewering of politicians probably was a push for me. |
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BrendaBrick (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
26. delete double post ('puter froze up - accidently sent twice) n/t |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 06:05 PM Response to Original message |
27. my Mama always took me with her to vote |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-01-11 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
29. 10 when Kennedy ran. Grew up in a university city that was mostly Catholic |
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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-02-11 08:50 AM Response to Original message |
30. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 |
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