Lisa Poppaw getting out the vote for Obama

by: Stygius

08/27/08 @ 01:14:21 PM MDT

From the Fort Collins Now:

For Lisa Poppaw, Barack Obama represents the change she believes the nation's political system needs more than anything.

The Fort Collins City Council member is helping register voters on Obama's behalf and is bringing her high-school-aged daughter, who can't vote yet, to see Obama speak at Invesco Field at Mile High Thursday night.

Poppaw said her job for Obama, as a state voter registration co-chair, doesn't have anything to do with her own elected status, but that status does give her a chance to talk to voters.

"My role is to just make sure if there are opportunities to encourage people to get involved with the process, get registered and get your voice out there, that I take advantage of it," she said. "On occasion I have the opportunity to speak to people and to encourage them to register and to get involved." [Ed. note: Link added]