Main Street

Persistance met with enthusiasm

by Andy Hartwig—Pennsylvania

I was having a challenging night, it was hard to get people to talk to me. At one point in the night, a little girl answered the door and said her parents weren’t home. Her aunt was busy cleaning the house and folding clothes. I tried to yell over the vacuum to get her attention. I think she pretended not to hear me. From the kitchen, I hear a voice ask me “Is this about SCHIP?” I replied with relief that it was. A young man came to the door and grabbed the clipboard out of my hand and began to sign up immediately. He was so enthusiastic to be graduating high school and couldn’t wait to study political science in college. I let him know that I received a degree in that subject myself.

He wants to dedicate his life and studies to government because he believes it is the job of the government to provide solutions to problems our society, and will fight with all his heart for universal health care and better trade laws to protect American jobs and families. It was great to see a young person with such devotion. If he wasn’t about to go off to school, I would have offered him a job with us. I guess writing about him on the blog will have to do.

Tags: Health Care, membership, SCHIP