Canvasser talks to man, man gets involved

by Matthew Hall—Missouri

The other day I experienced an unexpected surprise on turf.

I was telling a gentleman about how 48 million Americans have no health care when he stops me and says, “Yeah, but most of them are young and don’t want health care.” This sent a flag up in my head because most people that would think he wasn’t a person who would support the issues we support. But I looked him straight in the eye anyway and said to him, “Sir I can tell you from talking to people at their doors, that is not quite true.”

He looked me over and after a dramatic pause said, “maybe you are right.” I then explained about becoming a member of Working America and the strength in numbers power it give to working people to make change. He stopped me after this and said, “yeah, but it will not do any good. The politicians will not listen.” I firmly told him, “Sir, when we get enough people they are going to have to listen.”

We looked at each other for a minute once again, then he finally said to me “maybe you are right.” He joined as a member right there and gave a voluntary dues payment.

It was inspiring to me that I found one of my biggest supporters of the night in someone that at first sight didn’t appear to be interested in what I had to say.

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