The campaign to re-elect President Obama dubbed this weekend the "Gotta Vote Weekend," an effort by Obama For America (OFA) volunteers to register new voters some four and a half months before the general election.
Hillsborough County is a crucial area for Team Obama if they are going to win Florida again this fall, and so film and television actress Kerry Washington traveled (with her father) to Ybor City on Sunday to thank a large group of OFA volunteers to confidently walk the streets and get new voters registered.
A hardcore Democrat who campaigned for John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008, the 35-year-old actress told CL that she had the day free and asked the campaign where should she and her father Earl celebrate Father's Day together and get the pro-Obama message out? We'll send you out to Tampa, she was told.
"Everybody understands how important Florida is now, particularly because of a lot of changes proposed .. they're just so much stuff going on out here that we really want to make sure that we are protecting the votes of eligible voters," she said, alluding to the recent standoff between Governor Rick Scott and the federal government on purging non-citizens from the state's voting rolls.
