Our very own David Broockman, Obama delegate and Obama Works member, has been featured on the front page of BarackObama.com!

David is only 19, but you wouldn’t know it from the length of his resume. Growing up in Texas, he completed over 2,300 hours of community service. He was involved with the Dean and Kerry campaigns in 2004, knocking on doors and making phonecalls from local offices. He later interned for Congressman Lloyd Doggett before moving to Connecticut for school.

It was in Connecticut that David became involved in our campaign through…Obama Works, which does community service as they help to spread Barack Obama’s message of real change.

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On our site, David makes a bit of a cameo in the “Why Obama Works” video here, as he helps clean up New Haven.  Congrats, David, on being elected a delegate and being featured on the Obama site–enjoy Denver!

The kick-off Obama Works Palo Alto, CA event was a quite successful book drive. The story below ran in the Palo Alto Daily news.

By Liz Harrelson / Daily News correspondent

Supporters of the Ravenswood School District and presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama rallied for literacy and the candidate’s campaign Saturday, collecting more than 1,300 books for the district.

Amid gleeful cries from children playing in Rinconada Park in Palo Alto and the singing of family songs by local performers, about 50 people turned out supporting “Obama ‘08″ stickers, T-shirts and other political memorabilia. One girl, Amelia Ashlund, 5, painted her own shirt in support of the political candidate.

“Once you raise the level of education, you raise the level of quality of life in a community,” said Ravenswood School District Board Member Larry Moody. (more…)