Meet Your Delegates: Kansas City Married Couple Earn Their Spot at the Convention

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Sarah is just an awesome lady. And a tireless worker. What a nice tribute.

Late on January 3rd in 2008, Sarah Starnes and her husband Kelvin Walls drove three and a half hours back to Kansas City to make it to work the next day. They had left Des Moines, Iowa–where then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had just notched his first victory at the Iowa caucuses–after they spent the day shuttling caucus-goers to precincts. “Our lives will never be the same,” they said to each other.

And they haven’t been as the Missouri couple, often with their two kids in tow, has traveled across the US for the President, canvassing for him in South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, and Indiana, serving as delegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, braving the cold to see the inauguration in DC, and finally preparing to come to Charlotte for the 2012 convention as delegates once again.

“I am just thankful that I had the opportunity to live in this time to be a part of what he’s doing because it’s historic and the legislation that he’s facilitated is going to change lives and the course of our country for decades to come,” Sarah said.

Sarah, a social worker for over thirty years, had never once before involved herself with politics until she went to a house meeting for then-Senator Obama in early 2007. Convinced that this campaign was different and truly participatory, she dragged her husband Kelvin, a neck surgeon, to a subsequent meeting.

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