Shortly after the debate started someone knocked on the door

[question everything]

A young man with a tag around his neck started talking about community organizing. I stopped him in mid sentence: we are watching the debate, I said. Yes, yes, he said, and then something about the AFL CIO. We are watching the debate, I repeated. Yes, we are collecting funds... Sorry, I said, I've already donated to candidates and closed the door.

If someone wants to send funding request door to door for, supposedly a progressive cause, why send them during a Democratic debate?

At least, I would consider the AFL CIO progressive..

[2naSalit]

1. Maybe...

they set their own schedules that may be during extra time between shifts at their day job and this was an open time slot. But they should have been aware that people would likely be watching the debates, particularly the ones who might donate to your cause.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Piss poor planning on someone's part.

[dflprincess]

3. It reminds me of what happened when the Twins were in the World Series

I believe it was in '87 (maybe '91). I get a call from an ernest young man who wants to discuss precinct caucus strategey for the nuclear freeze movement.

I told him I was watching the game and he asked "Do you really think a baseball game is more important than the nuclear freeze?" (He was so sincere, I just couldn't get angry at him for that snark.) I pointed out that the caucuses were several months away and the game was on at that very moment and we ended the call.

A couple nights later, he calls again. "I made sure the game wasn't on yet." I told him I appreciated that and pointed out it was a travel day and there was no game that night (I refrained from asking how any Minnesotan could not know that). Then I let him continue.

I wonder what ever became of him, or the nuclear freeze for that matter.