The BFCE is outdoing themselves people. h/t slinkerwink
Dialing number after number, Martha Eisenhour sat at a single table working her way through a phone list of unreachable people that most campaigns might have abandoned.
But Eisenhour understands what most people don't - that sometimes there are people on the other end of that line.
The numbers - which give a pattern of electronic beeps and clicks - typically are discarded as faxes or computer modems. However, some connect to the homes and lives of people in the deaf community who communicate with a special text telephone called TTY.
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Reaching those in the deaf community is the reason why she spent her Wednesday night volunteering in the Callaway County Democratic Headquarters phone canvassing for Barack Obama's Campaign for Change.
“The deaf community wants to be treated like everyone else and they should have that right,” Eisenhour said. “They want to be informed about the issues of the day and want to have an opportunity also to let their opinions be known.”
After working her way through part of her list, the blinking “RINGING” LCD message was finally replaced with a “HELLO” and a person typing at the other end of the line.
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