DFIA Booth Draws Huge Crowd at Harkin Steak Fry

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Photo courtesy of Drury for Iowa Senate

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The DFIA booth was by far the most heavily visited.  One Art Small for U.S. Senate
staffer remarked that we must be giving away $100 bills to draw such a
crowd!  But, no, it was Darrell and his buttons and Alta Price,
DFIA co-founder, and her Flat Howard (see photo below) that were the real draw.



Alta
gave away small Blog for Iowa buttons as folks lined
up to have their picture taken with Flat Howard – who had paid $10 to
ride the bus and $25 to get in!  (You can't say that DFIA doesn't
have a sense of humor!)

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Darrell Lewis, right foreground, making buttons at the DFIA booth.
That's Dean Dozen candidate John Drury chatting with a supporter
in the center (background, dark shirt).

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Darrell wowed the crowd with buttons he was making right there in the booth.  The first button Darrell ran out of was “Kerry/Edwards Voters on Loan from Dean.” 
We ran out of the “Dean Democrat” buttons shortly thereafter. 
Darrell gave away close to 500 buttons and Alta gave out some 50
colorful signs.  At one point, a crowd of 50 people, lined up six
deep, were at the DFIA booth waiting for buttons.

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DFIA members: (front, left to right) Darrell Lewis
 and Dr. Alta Price, and (back) Scott Soil and Water
Conservation Commission candidate Molly Regan,
Flat Howard, and Cliff Day.  Darrell Lewis designed
the two DFIA/Blog for Iowa signs we used – the rainbow
version above and the plain version in the top photo.

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We feel
totally renewed and re-energized for the hard work still ahead, which
is the whole point of the Harkin Steak Fry, after all.  The Dean
movement is alive and well and living in Iowa!