Terry Penrod, member of HRC's Board of Directors, attends the rally at Ohio State
On Sunday evening, HRC supporters joined 35,000 other progressive voters to rally with the president and first lady at Ohio State University in Columbus.
President Obama reminded us that change does not often come quickly, and that the stakes in this election are huge. We have a choice to keep moving America forward with policies that will move us into a clean energy economy with clean energy jobs, that will maintain higher education affordability, continue tax cuts for middle-class Americans and advance our civil rights. Or, we will go back to the failed policies of the Bush years. It’s a pretty simple and a pretty stark choice.
I felt the excitement of 2008 all over again, and President Obama’s message is just what we needed to hear—in clear terms—how we must all get out to vote for fair-minded legislators at the local, state and federal levels so the policies that we all care so much about—like the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and the Employment Non-discrimination Act—have a chance to pass.
It’s now or never, and I urge all Ohioans to get involved with our HRC election efforts in Ohio by emailing me: Karin.quimby@hrc.org.
Paid for by Human Rights Campaign PAC and authorized by the Ohio Democratic Party.
