The Green Bay Action Network put on a killer speaker's training this morning at the University of Wisconsin Student Union. Talk about turning the interested into the invested. 20% of the attendees immediately volunteered to do public talks about the pending ban on civil unions and marriage. Additionally, several volunteered to help out GBAN and Action Wisconsin, including the now critical data entry. Anti-discrimination supporters on board now approach 50,000 statewide. Kudos to Dennis Krenn, Susan Allen, Aaron Hulse and Laurie Ferguson for a job well done!
Real Christian response to the amendment is percolating a lobby day of their own to boot. Check it out or yourself online or in the next edition of Quest.
Speaking of Quest, here is a sneak peek of the opening of my lobby day story due out midweek, one of two in the paper:
"They came from every one of the Wisconsin's thirty three senate districts. Many from the far north and west got in Wednesday and stayed overnight. Thirty-five from Milwaukee boarded the Center Advocates bus as dawn broke, just about an hour after an Auburndale dairy farmer/activist delivered a calf prior to his leaving for the capitol. They came, young and old, straight and gay, Christian and nonbeliever, singles, couples and families - over four hundred strong - for Action Wisconsin's Lobby Day to Stop the Constitutional Ban on Civil Unions and Marriage here January 27.
For all it was a "take your breath away" kind of day. Massing at the Best Western Inn on the Park the citizen lobbyists first charged through the controlled chaos of registration and sign-in. Unlike AW's 2003 lobby effort, cobbled together in a matter of days, the overwhelming majority of attendees had pre-registered. The entire process thus proceeded with near-military precision, right down to the "hurry up and wait" lines to receive training packets."
I'm going to pop a few pics up in the blog as well. Look below:
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