Some Metros have all the luck....

When planning an event, one tends to be very optimistic about the outcome. One thinks in numbers - 5,000 - 10,000 people attending a block party(put on by the LGBT community), 25 people signed up to volunteer at said block party, 1 fabulous person trying to make it all happen. One thinks "Wow, we are going to sign up 100 volunteers for election day! Piece of cake my friend!". WRONG. This was my first lesson in volunteer recruitment. People seem to think that signing up to volunteer is altruistic enough, thus showing up would over extend their reach. The first set of volunteers to not show up were those who signed-up to attend the block party and to recruit for election day. Guess who showed up? My team and one of the senior campaign staffers. That's it. Fabulous. Way to go DCCC volunteers! Of course it shouldn't have surprised me since my team is the best. We had another senior staffer sign-up as well, but he didn't show-up probably because he had to tend to his man-whore duties.
We arrived in full force at the block party - me dressed as Orin-Ishi-i from Kill Bill (I ROCKED and Josh made a kick-ass sword out of a yard sign stake, duct tape, cardboard and mad whittling skills), Josh dressed as the metro that he is, Allison dressed as Cookie Monster, senior staffer dressed as a Democrat who wanted to eat all the cookies Cookie Monster had to offer, Crackberry dressed as, well, himself, and Rob dressed as himself as well.
I went to town putting stickers on everyone that walked by, telling them that the "VOTE FROST" sticker is the hottest fashion accessory in town and everyone was wearing it. Nuns walked by and I proclaimed "Nuns for Frost!". Jesus walked by and I said "Jesus loves Frost, even though he's a Jew." Drag queens for Frost! Dominatrices for Frost! Devils for Frost! Angels for Frost! Before you knew it, at least a third of the attendees had Frost stickers on them.
Meanwhile, Josh was signing up volunteers, risking life and, well, limb. Literally. His no-no parts were being grabbed more times than he cared to talk about. He took one for the team and for that we salute him!
In all, we signed up 34 volunteers and of those 10 actually volunteered on election day. Senior staff said that was what they expected. I knew about the lack of voter turnout, but I wish someone had informed me about volunteer turnout.