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Got the privilege of helping turn in nearly a million signatures today (~861,388 combined) for @letsgowa.
Between gathering signatures, collecting sheets, opening mail, and manually counting (about 3,000 came in last-minute at the event), I only assisted with roughly 10% of the total.
What stood out most was how humbling it was to witness the sheer amount of work and care this crew poured into the process. I watched them pause over sheets where two extra signatures had been added at the bottom (which legally can’t be counted), or where coffee had spilled and blurred a signature, and comment, genuinely, on how sad it was that that one might not count. This was hours into opening thousands of envelopes with tens of thousands of signatures, yet each loss still mattered to them.
We set aside thank you notes people included, notes where people apologized they weren't able to go out an collect more, kind words people wrote that staff made sure @bkheywood got to read.
It truly showed how much every single signer is valued. Each signature was treated as if it were the most important one, because it was.
Thank you to everyone who signed, volunteered, gathered, organized, and made this possible. Your effort mattered.
(A special thanks to everyone who chatted with me at one of the @letsgowa or @WAGOP/@ScottPresler events and those who politely declined my 5th offer of a bag of blank sheets because you were hiding the bag I had already given you out of sight.)
Washington has spoken.
Boys don’t belong in girls’ sports.
Parents are the most important part of their children’s lives.
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