Embedded at home in Michigan

This week, campaigns project manager Kerry Duggan is home in Michigan embedded with the Gary Peters campaign. This is her first dispatch from the Wolverine State.

I started out in the Gary Peters for Congress headquarters yesterday, just a hop and a skip from my parents' home. I was put on the phones for "call time" right away. The office was a buzz with activity. I sat across from Colleen Peters (wonderful wife of Gary) and played a little six degrees of separation – something Detroiters do very well. When all of our stomach's collectively growled after hours on the phones, we ordered Chinese from a nearby restaurant.

All of a sudden, the office burst out with excitement. The campaign manager opened a fortune cookie that read, "Opportunity awaits you on next Tuesday". No one else was allowed to open fortune cookies.

Peters campaign staff with the fortune cookie

Today I've been in the field office making calls to volunteers to come out and help GOTV in the coming days. It's an impressive operation – covering almost every corner of the district. It also gave me a reason to reconnect with some of my grade school, high school and grad school classmates. Now let's see if I can get them out to volunteer!

Earlier this afternoon, I went over to a fundraiser for Gary and saw Congressman Rahm Emanuel and Senator Levin (and was sure to congratulate the Senator on his 100% 2008 LCV score).

There's a great deal of energy here in Oakland County around Gary's campaign. The polls look good, but Dirty Dozen member Joe Knollenberg has more cash and is running plenty of negative ads on TV and on the radio.

Plenty of work to do in the coming days. I'll check back in soon!