Anjali Taneja

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:21:20 -0800

Update -- Dana Snodgrass, a small business owner in Joplin, Missouri, who was featured in the first video above, shared these remarks this week with the folks at Local Voices for Obama: A good friend of mine, and an architect in Joplin, came by to see me after seeing the commercial and just wanted to let me know that he's always voted republican, but enough is enough and he's finally decided to vote for Barack because he's tired of the lies and deception. Some people have called my business and said that I was crazy for making a statement publicly about politics when I own my own business, but they admired my courage. This morning, I had a phone call from a prominent Joplin businessman who just wanted to let me know that he really admired me and that I wasn't standing alone, and that there were other people who felt like I did, but were too big of cowards, just like him, to stand up and say something... There have also been several negative comments on the Joplin Globe website about my commercial, but on the positive side, I had 2 customers in the waiting room of my business, one waiting for an alignment, the other was picking up his car. The one who was picking up his car was telling me how he saw my commercial. The other customer heard us talking and told me quietly that he was going to go door to door in his neighborhood hanging Obama information on the doors, but with the neighborhood he was living in he was afraid for people to find out that he was voting for Obama. I told him that I was proud of him. Another man called me from Pearidge, AR. He said that he wanted me to know that he saw my story online and that there were a lot of people in Arkansas who were supporting me and to keep up the good work and that I wasn't alone. So as you can see, it's been a busy day...

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Anjali Taneja