All hands on deck for Coakley

04:23 PM Jan 15, 2010

Hey there, I'm Michael Miller, part of the product sales and marketing team here at SalsaLabs. And after a phone call last night, I'm clearing out and Shipping up to Boston.

This is a the final push to ensure the legacy of Teddy Kennedy, perhaps the greatest senator of the modern age.

In 2002, I was a theater major at Wesleyan University, sitting backstage when I saw the GOP took back the Senate. I had a vision of 20 years down the road having to tell my kids that when the Republicans took back the senate, overturned Roe and generally screwed the country that I had been sitting backstage and watched it on TV.

I couldn't stand for that.

The next morning I called my Dad up on the phone and said "I know this sounds kind of cheesy, but I want to do something for the country. How do I get involved?" 5 Months later, I was working in New Hampshire for Dean. This was a transformative experience and has literally defined the course of my life since then.

As a Massachusetts Democrat, I grew up with my parents pointing to Teddy as the example of what it meant to stand up for your principles, even when it might be not be popular, even when everyone else shouted you down. This is not just a race for a Massachusetts Senate seat. This is a race to select someone to carry on the legacy of Teddy Kennedy. This is a race to ensure that national healthcare, the promise of 40 years of progressive politics, becomes law. Martha Coakley is the 60th vote for cloture and Scott Brown has vowed to be the 41st to block it. It's that simple.

I'm taking leave from SalsaLabs now to fly up to Boston, to put my shoulder to the wheel, and to fight with every molecule in my body to ensure that "the dream lives on, the work continues, the cause endures, hope lives and the dream shall never die"

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