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Globe/T. Rob Brown Timothy Anderson gestures Monday night as he suggests ways area Obama supporters can come together to help in the presidential campaign. He will direct a 16-county regional campaign for Obama from an office in Joplin. Anderson spoke to area Democrats on Monday night at the Laborers’ Union Hall in Joplin.

Published July 15, 2008 12:37 am - Local Democrats are excited at the prospects of a Joplin-based office for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Democrats on Monday night packed a Joplin hall to hear a regional field director outline plans for a campaign that will rely on residents for grass-roots organizing.


Obama campaign to set up regional office in Joplin



By Susan Redden

sredden@joplinglobe.com

Local Democrats are excited at the prospects of a Joplin-based office for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.

Democrats on Monday night packed a Joplin hall to hear a regional field director outline plans for a campaign that will rely on residents for grass-roots organizing.

The announcement that Joplin will be the site of a regional campaign office was one of several comments that brought applause from the crowd that filled the Laborers’ Union Hall at 20th Street and Empire Avenue.

The Joplin area typically is a satellite of Democrat campaigns based in Springfield, said Tim Anderson, a regional field director for the campaign.

“Because this area turned out so well for (now U.S. Sen.) Claire McCaskill two years ago, there will be a regional office here,” Anderson said.

He said the 16 counties that will compose the region “have been tough for Democrats,” but compared it with the area surrounding his hometown of Norfolk, Neb.

“It was a GOP stronghold, but there has been a 30-point shift in the last six years; no one thought it was possible,” he said.

He said the Obama campaign recognizes the importance of Missouri as a bellwether state “and will do a lot of work here.”

“It’s a historic campaign at a historic time, with more people getting registered, more people voting, and more people understanding there is an opportunity to take back the country,” he said, to applause from the crowd.

He said initial chores will be opening a campaign office, with plans for voter registration drives, neighborhood canvassing and setting up booths for the campaign at county fairs and other events.

Also introduced was Cecil Hynds-Riddle, who will work in the area as a field organizer.

Both referred briefly to the fact that residents may be coming to the campaign late, after supporting Hillary Clinton or another Democratic contender.

“I really think we’ll be stronger because of it; we have the message,” Anderson said.



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