>>EMILY GOLIVER: I worked on the Clinton campaign
in the summer going into last year, and at
the beginning of the summer we were based
in the Ohio Democratic Party headquarters.
And, then, like the organizers ... so I had
an organizer out of Columbus, and then on
campus; they both recommended that I look
into that.
So I was the chief of staff's intern, so I
kind of helped her with what she did.
I met David Pepper, who is the chairman of
the ODP.
My boss, Bridget, was his chief of staff,
so I worked pretty closely with him.
And part of what she does, that I helped her
with, is organizing where he should be, where
he should be speaking.
They just started an 88-county initiative,
I guess, and one of my projects was looking
at all of his events that he's done the past
two years, see what counties he's been to
the most, what he hasn't really been to at
all, and helping put together where he should
be in the future.
I also helped with like day-to-day office
stuff.
But I was really involved, which was one of
my favorite things, with like actually doing
a lot of the political stuff.
So I spoke with a lot of the county party
chairs, I sat in on the staff meetings every
Monday and learned exactly what everybody
was doing, how they were preparing for not
just 2018, but 2017 as well.
We, like basically as soon as I got there,
we were about to kick off our redistricting
petition drive.
That's a petition to end gerrymandering in
Ohio, and I got to be not just in the like
petition gathering side of it, which was also
very cool, but the validating the petitions,
seeing how many we were getting, working with
the parties in kind of like a competition
of which county was able to get the most signatures,
yeah, working with the partner groups we were
working with to make sure we were able to
get this on the ballot at some point.
I think that having the experience is going
to be really good because I wasn't just like
-- it was very hands on -- I wasn't just answering
phones and opening mail and stuff or listening
to voicemails.
I felt like I was actually involved in a lot
of the things.
And I got to be a part of a lot of like conference
calls that had a lot of high-powered people
on it, so I think that was really cool, and
getting to work so closely with David Pepper
and getting to meet a lot of the statewide
candidates I think will help me in the future.
