Austin's Ian Davis Featured in the WSJ
Reporters covering the Obama campaign have gotten to know Ian Davis quite well -- he's the indefatigable leader of a grassroots, all-volunteer group called Texans for Obama, which grew out of a book club in 2006. The group has since been organizing meet-ups and sign-making parties and policy talks... then, when the nomination battle actually came here, Davis surged into action, helping drive the "people power" part of the Obama Texas campaign.
In today's Wall Street Journal, the ever-humble Davis finally gets some love.
The 29-year-old Austin community organizer has been laboring for months with no guidance at all from Obama headquarters. When Sen. Obama's team finally arrived, Mr. Davis handed over laundry baskets stuffed with 20,000 handwritten names of potential volunteers, which Mr. Davis had gathered on his own.How cool for him... there's even the standard WSJ pencil drawing of his mug instead of a photo!
*In the Obama commercial, "Join", you know, the one set to rock music with images flashing between things like "we can save the planet" and "we can save the world", you see an image of Ian, only, it's the back of him. He's doing the Richard Nixon, arms up and out, hookin' em instead of thumbs up.
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