Elect Laura

My mom and I went to march in the Arlington Heights parade with some volunteers that were helping us out. As we went down the streets, people enthusiastically cheered Laura while we passed out the candy and conversed with the crowd. There were as many as up to 10 people that knew Laura personally and came to give her a hug on the street while she was marching in the parade.

Thinking we had enough candy we were generous as we passed through the huge crowds. But we had no idea how huge and popular the Arlington Heights parade actually was and ran out before the end. This crowd was so great as we walked large groups of kids and their parents would start chanting “elect Laura”! We all felt terrible for the kids on the second half of the parade but they were troopers and equally enthusiastically (well, maybe not quite…) collected our business cards and fliers. I remembered from my youth that kids just like to collect anything-but of course candy is far better than stickers or business cards so in between parades our volunteer crew ran to Sam’s Club and restocked with 15 more pounds for the next parade!

Although We ran out of candy to pass out quickly because of the large amount of people there but we made the most out of what little we had left when the crowd starting chanting “Laura!” for the candy. I believe that the Arlington Heights parade was a very large success and it was also a lot of fun. We also appeared at the Mount Prospect parade as well. This time we had much more candy to give out and went down the streets with more volunteers, a pick up truck with speakers playing the beach boys, and a shiny red Chevy Camaro. Again, the crowd was very kind and energetic. Some people knew Laura personally and some were yelling about seeing her on T.V. The Mount Prospect Parade was a great time and was very good for the
campaign.