Drs Fergie Reid Sr and Jr Skyping from the Daily Kos Roanoke event to the Daily Kos Kansas City event, 4/25/15. Thanks
https://twitter.com/Scout_Finch Jennifer Hayden and navajo for the Twitter image.
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread for Saturday, May 2nd. We try to get together every weekend to share with everyone what we're all up to in Western North Carolina and beyond. We hope this group and others serve to invigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville and other local and state groups can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who we stand with, work with, and share with. We hope this local and wider community can help leverage our orange passion for progressive politics to elect more and better Democrats.
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DKos Asheville May 5/2/15
From Wednesday, link below
DKos Asheville brought its eighth community meet up to life this weekend with a historic appearance of a civil rights icon, Dr Fergie Reid, in Roanoke Virginia. As reported by Roanoke's NBC Station, WSLS10:
A living legend was honored in Roanoke on Saturday. A special event was held at Hotel Roanoke recognizing William Ferguson Reid. Dr. Reid was the first African-American elected to the Virginia General Assembly in the twentieth century.
Greetings from Asheville! The weather is so gorgeous and finally warm that all I'm seeing are smiling faces and no sweaters. Finally! And the week ahead looks just as nice and even warmer. The folks of Western North Carolina are very happy.
Today's diary is a short one, please use as an open thread and we would love to see some pics if you were in VA. Despite our technical issues with Skype, I thought it was cool that we at least made that connection for the Kansas City folks. I'm looking forward to Asheville Connects on September 26th where we can work out technical issues and expand the call concept to include more than one meet up.
Last week's meet up in Roanoke was a wonderful experience for us all and DKos Asheville is really happy about this connection to Virginia. Please look forward to some thoughts in a future diary series on connecting communities and states as we continue making these connections through Daily Kos. I have connected with so many new people and new Kossack friends that it is a bit of a rush realizing the potential for Kossack driven success during any election, anywhere.
Daily Kos Meet ups, the latest
Roanoke Roundup
Dallas Meet up
Kansas City
Kansas City and more
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Best wishes
randallt