Picture this. We walk into the hall where we are about to have our community meeting and there is a box on the stage. The box is overflowing with sign up cards. Literally, the cards are all over the place.

I go running up to our field director Jeremy Bird and ask him, in my normal calm way, “Why are all of these cards here? Don’t you know the event is about to start?” Bird assures me all is good and says, “Guess what all of these cards are?”

It turns out the cards were being presented to us by Wisconsin Citizen Action. What a great surprise! Over 5,000 petitions asking Wal-Mart to pay its fair share for health care.

Just when I thought my day couldn’t have gotten any better, I had the best cream puff ever at the Wisconsin state fair (kudos to my girlfriend’s family for that idea!), it did. The smile on my face was ecstatic. This is grassroots action at its best. People, community groups, and elected leaders coming together and going door-to-door to take back America from corporations like Wal-Mart so we can have health care for all and economic security.

Now it is on to Madison. Can’t wait!