17 May, 2017
New Guernsey, Fernão
The fumes of the oil refineries choked and pained the campaigner. The sweat and torrential rains mixed with one another, flowing down the campaigner's face. Her back hurt bitterly, her thoughts twangs of regret drowned out by the stress of the matter and the closeness of the election. Yet she pushed on. One more door, she said. One more flier, one more call, one more street, one more town. That had been her credo in the closing hours of the election as she repeated it again and again, visiting more and more potential voters in this GOTV initiative. For every potential door was a potential decisive vote for Iyasu Isaias Mengistu and a vote for socialism and justice for the working man and woman in the Senate. And the staffer was nothing if not dedicated to her cause and to justice for the working man and woman she so dearly loved, for they were her brothers and sisters, her mother and father. And throughout New Guernsey, so many others repeated her credo as their own. And perhaps so did Iyasu Isaias Mengistu, although for him it was one more rally, one more interview. The election was tight, and so every call and knock they could make would have an immense impact on Fernão and its people.
One more call. One more door.
