Tulsi Gabbard runs her Iowa campaign with volunteers

[brooklynite]

Des Moines Register

Geoff and Kareen Silva are from Cornville, Arizona, but moved to Iowa and leased a home in Des Moines to volunteer for U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's presidential campaign.

Geoff Silva said he had been interested in Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii, for a long time, but they didn't have many chances to see her in Arizona. When Gabbard held an event in Las Vegas, Nevada, in May, the two drove five hours to see her, he said, and quickly offered to help the one volunteer staffing the event.

Afterwards, Gabbard invited them to lunch.

"During the conversation, Tulsi was talking about her need to have 'boots on the ground' in Iowa," Geoff Silva said. "I go, 'Well, heck, I'm not doing anything, I'd love to do that.'"

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All of Gabbard's Iowa supporters working to raise her name awareness, find donors and host events in the first-in-the-nation caucus state are volunteers. Her campaign does not have any paid staff in Iowa, and would not answer whether they plan to hire campaign workers or compensate volunteers in positions typically occupied by full-time staff.

[hlthe2b]

1. "Volunteers" you say....

Do they speak Russian?

I k'eed. I k'eed..

[empedocles]

2. Worth watching - epstein lesson

[FrankBooth]

3. Totally legit campaign

I mean, what serious contender bothers to put together a paid staff in Iowa?

[JI7]

4. this whole fucking weirdness