OBÁMANOS! TRAVELS THROUGH AZTLAN WITH RITA AND RICHARD - East County Magazine
During the last two weeks of the 2008 presidential race, Rita and I decided to visit battleground states and volunteer in the various Obama campaign offices that were scattered throughout the Southwest. This decision emerged because we both had been getting more and more involved in the San Diego campaign as we went to voter registration drives and Democratic Party Platform meetings in Chula Vista, and hosted phone banks and political meetings in our home. Finally in the last weeks of the campaign we felt we had to do more.
We are both semi- retired professors of Chicana/o Studies in San Diego, California and we have the luxury of begin able to work in the campaign almost full time and to take off for a few weeks. In the past we had traveled to New Mexico a lot because Rita’s ancestors are from there, in Bernalillo and Las Cruces, and she likes to do family research. I love New Mexico for its scenery, food, people, history, and easy way of living.