We won't stop till the lady in the pantsuit sings!

...and everyone knows the lady in the pantsuit can't sing for #*@&*% !!!!

The Hillcar on Capitol Hill!

I just bought my plane ticket to Louisvile on Wednesday to drive the Hillcar to DC! I would loooove a rider, especially someone who LOVES to drive! I seriously hate driving in big cities... roadtrip, anyone?

Mrs. Clinton, your Hill-cab awaits!

My phone's off the hook...

...but I'm not!
My phone just died which is cramping my style today! I am trying to make a plan, but without a phone, a car, and in a 50 MPH wind storm things are not going along as easily as they could!
I am leaving one of my alter-egos "El-Change-O!" ( pictured below) in charge as I head off to work. Any thoughts, abstract or otherwise, please pass on to El-Change-O! And I'll get back to you soon!
Gretchen

Blowin' away!

The winds of change are a-blowin' , and nobody's a-knowin' where this is a-goin'!


This photo was taken during my "Sunset Boulevard" obsessed days!

Here in Bisbee the wind is blowing at 50 miles per hour! Almost as fast as the Hillcar on the highway!
Which brings me to my next dilemma. My auto-shippers (A to Z Auto Shipping, who ROCK, by the way!), can't find an auto-carrier until NEXT Friday! My fantastic friends, George and Trisha, have been more than kind by storing the Hillcar in their garage in Louisiville. But poor Trisha's car had to be moved out of their garage to house the Hillcar, and I think the Hillcar may be taking advantage of their hospitality!
The Hillcar was last seen routing though George and Trisha's fridge, opening up their best champagne, and taking it back out to the garage with some cucumber slices for her eyes!
Hillcar, do I have to get back on that plane and drag you out of there by your bumper?
I'm thinking I do, but luckily the WHITE HOUSE is a mere 12 hours a way, and an important rally to seat Florida and Michigan is underway. So, what do you think, folks, do we hear the White House calling?

A shout-out to some new friends!

Here's Suzanne, one of the most dedicated Hillary volunteers you will ever meet! She helped me with the Hillcar in West Virginia, as well as in Kentucky. Trust me , I need the help big-time! Thank you Suzanne, I look forward to the next Hill-adventure with you!



Here is Teresa, she made the cool Hillcar video! She is one of the kindest, generous souls there is... plus she's a lot of fun!



This is the infamous KC Mustang. KC and I met through this very blog! She joined us in Kentucky, and is was like being reunited an old friend.



This is George, of "Extreme Porching" fame! To Extreme Porch with him is to travel to a place filled with love, flowers, great wine, wonderful conversation, back rubs, and positivity! George is housing the HIllcar until it travels off to it's next adventure, thanks George!

Divided we fail!

There has been no end of in-fighting within the Democratic party, and I believe it needs to stop now! We will only fail and end up with 4 years of John McCain!
In order to come together it is imperative that both Hillary and Obama are together on the ticket. One as president, the other as vice. TOGETHER, CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!

Here are some more photos from the Victory party in Louisville, KY. What a great night it was, and what a great family the Clintons are!
The more I have been around Hillary, the more I have come to love her. Hillary's energy is one of love and caring. It's completely genuine, and it's amazing to be around! This is the kind of healing energy we need right now! I feel so lucky to be alive in the time of such a unique individual!

Back in Bisbee!

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I traveled all day, then slept 18 hours! I am working on the next thing right now. I'm trying to get the Hillcar shipped to South Dakota. If I don't have luck on that I have other ideas too. Today I will figure this out!
Here's a video made in the parking lot of the "Downtown Inn" in Louisville, KY. I think the interviewer is from the BBC.

Come on..

What's not to love!


We've had a great night here in Louisville! Tomorrow ( in a few hours) I will fly back to Arizona, and the Hillcar and I will go our seperate ways for the next week until we reunite in South dakota! Much thanks to George and Trisha, the "extreme porching" folks, for helping get the Hillcar to it's next destintation!
Many thanks as well, to Suzanne, KC, and Teresa... much love to you! But we all need to go to bed now! Goodnight!

The final frontiier!

Montana.. (or South Dakota!) The final frontier!
These are the voyages of the art car..."HILLCAR"!
It's mission, to seek out new Hillary supporters, to boldly go where no Hillcar has gone before!
(music please!)



O.K., I'm working on the details right now!

At the rally...Today's Hillcolor was...

Butterscotch supreme!



With a special guest ( who knew?)



and a freaky, funny kid running around...



One of my fave photogs, Robyn was there,



This event even had a cool band that kept everyone entertained until Hillary got there, now there's an idea!



Here's Hillary with Uma,



After the rally, KC Mustang and I went over to the hotel across the street, (where it turns out hillary is staying) for a drink. I spotted Uma having a drink with a couple of guys looking very relaxed and happy with a huge smile on her face, I was glad to see that!

Here she is... KC Mustang!

She looks a lot like Hillary!

Let go, Let Hillary!

Today I am reminding myself of this approach to life, "let go, let Hillary!" I will still work just as hard today, and I still believe just as strongly that Hillary is the one! But of late there are days when I feel very frustrated, so today I will simply use my old approach of getting out there with people and having some fun! There are a lot of great photo ops here in Louisville, I hope to be posting some a little later today!
Tonight Hillary speaks here in Louisville! Today I am not going to PUSH to be a part of the event as I have been, I will just BE part of the event, grasshopper!

KC Mustang!

We are back in Louisville at a cheap but decent hotel downtown. Soon to be joining us will be the this blogs own K.C. MUSTANG! She should be peeling into the parking lot around noon tomorrow!
Look out, here comes KC!

Please give this a listen...

Hillary speaks to bloggers

The "what should I do" polls are now closed!

And the winner is (drumroll please!)..... send the car to Montana and/or South Dakota!The close second was the "ditch and hitch",
( leaving the Hillcar at the Clinton museum in Little Rock and hitching home).
But as that choice wasn't the winner, this means that YEA! WE ARE GOING TO MONTANA AND/OR SOUTH DAKOTA!
Does anyone know anyone in Montana or South Dakota?
For all of you who haven't hit that faboulous "DONATE" button, now is your chance! Let's send the Hillcar ( and me!) to Montana and/or South Dakota! WWHD?!!

Today Hillcast... Turquoise!

Being rouge Hillary warriors occasionally has it's downsides. We have to brush-cut our own path through this campaign, trying to carve out a niche for crazy art cars and the like! And believe it or not, it isn't always that easy! But we brush ourselves off and ask ourselves, WWHD ( what would Hillary do) ? And the answer is always the same... get back up and keep on fighting!

Extreme porching

Here in Louisville, they do what is called " extreme porching!" We got right into the spirit!
I was spraying out a new "Hillsuit"in the alley next to the HC Headquarters, in what turned out to be our new friend George's back alley! He invited us over to "extreme porch", and it was all over! Louisville, we love you!







Thank you George and Trisha!

Up-date

I just purchased a plane ticket home from Louisville on Wednesday, the day after the Kentucky primary. Now the question is, where ever shall I send the Hillcar? My outgoing e-mail hasn't been working out here, so if you wrote me and I didn't respond this is why! Anyway, as soon as I can, I will send out some e-mails to see if there is any interest from the campaign, etc. in having the Hillcar in South Dakota and/or Montana!
Quitters never win, they say! Hillary's not a quitter, and neither are we!

Please tell the DNC we want Florida and Michigan's votes to count!
Florida and Michigan!


photo credit: Brian Blauser

Louisville Slugger

We are off to Louisville today to continue the fight! The horses here seem like they're not interested in voting anyway!

I'm out of horse photos, so here's a photo I found from USA TODAY.



I'm trying to decide what I should do today about getting home by Thursday for work. Maybe you can help.

My old Kentucky home!

It was raining incredibly hard this afternoon. We drove half way to the Bill rally and had to give up and turn around! We hated to give up, but when we got back to our "Hillary house," we discovered the answer to the question of where Hillary and the horses are ( it was driving me crazy!) Who knew, they were both right here in Frankfort, Kentucky!







Many thanks to our most excellent hosts, who helped us with these photos!

Special thanks to Suzanne!

I just want to take a moment to thank Suzanne from Chicago for her generous contribution! Thank you Suzanne, this really helps in a big way! It gets expensive out here on the campaign trail, and contributions like yours really take off the pressure!
Also,thank you John West, you rock, John!
And of-course.... thanks to all of you, always!
Love, Gretchen

Kentucky

We got to our supporter housing late lat night after what felt like forever driving down dirt roads. We woke up to this!



We are on a real Kentucky-style horse farm. But my question is, where are the horses, and where is Hillary?

More on my favorite photogs...

These folks follow HIllary everywhere and that's a tall order! How anyone can keep up with Hillary still baffles me!

Meet the lady who made the cool Hillcar video!

Here she is, "Mariandelochs" ( her alias!) I love the video she made, so I've reposted it below!

Commercial break!

If you would like to help keep the the Hillcar on the road in Kentucky, please visit the donate button on you right! Thank you so much to all of you who already have contributed and allowed me to live out this dream of supporting Hillary though art and through the Mighty Hillcar! Thanks everyone, let's keep this momentum going! Love, Gretchen

Photos from the Victory party

It was an amazing night for all of us last night! I wish you all could have been there!



Even Uma cracked a smile!



I was interviewed by Japanese Media!



Yes, John Denver was right, West Virginia is almost heaven!

Landslide!

We won by a landslide here in West Virginia! Hurray for Hillary! We are going to go out and celebrate, and I hope you are doing the same!


Today I met Terry Mcauliffe , Hillary's senior advisor!






His friend is the guy who is in charge of hillaryclinton.com They said they would post some of these photos tomorrow. Let's check that out!
Well, we must find food and drink now. Love to you all! We are heading off to Kentucky tomorrow! Go Hillary!

We're counting on you, West Virginia!

Today is the big day here in West Virginia! Tonight Hillary will be giving her Victory speech at the Charleston civic center, and we plan on being there to see her win big!
This afternoon is about "visibility", driving around and honking, standing on the side of the road and waving, wearing Hillary masks... that kind of thing!
Not much news at the moment, it's all being saved for tonight!

Some of the great people we've met in the past 12 hours!

This is Dotty, she is housing us. She's a total sweetheart! She made us a wonderful breakfast this morning, then she went on to make a big pot of her famous vegetable soup for the volunteers at Hillary Headquarters! Dotty is the best, we are very fortunate!





This is Larry Hicks. He is made first other real Hillary art car I've seen! He has traveled 19 states for Hillary! This morning, while driving though downtown Charleston, he was shot at 3 times. 3 bullets went through his vehicle right behind his head. He literally almost had a heart attack. Though he was outwardly very stoic and sweet, he was upset that the media had no interest in covering this story. He was really shaken up. I can't imagine what kind of sick person would want to harm such a kind man!





This is the Sherrif of Fairmont, west Virginia. He liked him, he was very nice to us!



This is Michael. He di not make a good first impression, to say the least. He began by saying some extremely rude things about Hillary, and about us. Afterwards, I saw him again in the restaurant, and I said that I thought he needed to work on his manners, and that he owed me an appology.
He agreed, and appologized. He then appologized to Suzanne, and sat down with us at our table. We soon decided that Michael was alright, and he even helped us get some press ( CBS< Washington, I think it was). So Hillary is right when she says she believes in giving people a second chance! we ended up having a pretty good conversation about Hillary!




... and lastely, our friends from the Daily show. I think they are a lot of fun!


Until tomorrow, have Hillary dreams!

Meet Suzanne!

This is Suzanne, my new traveling Hillcar partner! we plan to "do" West Virginia, then go to Kentucky together! Yet another great traveling mate, lucky me!



I got a call from the Daily show this morning, they want to film some more Hillcar footage tonight at the Faimont rally. We are about 20 minutes from Fairmont right now. I don't know if they will air Hillcar stuff tonight, I'm guessing tomorrow night.
It's another rainy day in W.V. We hear it is going to be sunny tomorrow though!
Let's hope for sunshine, roses and a great big win for Hillary tomorrow! Come on West Virginia!

On various topics...

I am huddled in a car in the rain picking up intermittent internet. It's late, we are tired, and we still have to drive a ways to find our "supporter housing." So without further ado, here's some other topics....


The Hillcar makes the front age of the Drudge report!

The Drudge Report

Today's Hill-color was... daffodil! A great choice for Mother's day!



The Hillary/Chelsea event was held in Grafton W.V.
Fun fact, Mother's day was invented in Grafton! They have what they call the "Mother's Day Shrine" there.
A huge, church-like building, with stained glass windows depicting famous ( I guess!) mothers.



Suzanne says I'm now speaking in "Blog speak", as I sit cramped over this computer in the dark car.
O.K., over and out!
...One last thing, many, many thanks to Rod and Sally for supporting me and covering my shifts at "Cafe Roka" in Bisbee, AZ!
Not that many restaurant owners would tolerate all these shenanigans!

The Daily Show!

The Hillcar and I may be heckled tomorrow night on the Daily show. I met Jason Jones and he interviewed me, it was pretty fun!





Jason then took the Hillcar for a ride!



We had fun with him, as I am sure he will have fun with us tomorrow night!



As we drove away Suzanne put on the Hill-mask and we honked at him. His last words were, "Oh my god!"

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

This is my mom, she is a really cool artist/photographer from Martha's Vineyard. Our lineage goes back to the 1600's on my mom's side. I hope you have a great day, mom! I will be going to see Chelsea and Hillary together today and will be thinking of you!



Check out my mother's Myspace page!
Jackie Baer

We're off to see the Wizard!

If ever a wiz she was...
I finally got up the nerve to call Capricia, Hillary's right hand gal. She seems very intimidating and I didn't want to make the call. Oh, news flash....just in.... this lady isn't Capricia, this is Uma!



O.K., well I spoke with Capricia ( who is in Arlington) , who is very friendly and cool. She said she'd help me out and call Advance to let them know I will be coming with the Hillcar and to let me in to the rallies.
Let's hope she made the call. We have a two and a half hour drive to the first rally today!
By the way, I am still floored by that video I posted last night! My parents called and love it too!

I am so touched, I can't believe this!

This was made by a wonderful, mysterious woman who goes by "mariandelochs", in West Virginia! Wow! Thank you girl, so much! I feel truly honored!

Melissa's hopping off the campaign trail!

Melissa has to get back to her real life, her music career. It has been such a joy to have her join me this past week in the Hillcar. Besides being my personal chauffeur, ( I don't actually like driving!), she has been a great companion and together our time has been really effective in Hillaryland. Thanks so much Melissa! I'll miss you!



Driving the Hillcar is a two person job. There are a lot of logistics to deal with. For instance at rallies, one person needs to drive while the other works up the crowds. Or while one person circles the block, the other runs around talking with Officials, police, ground crew etc., to plug the Hillcar into the event. Not to mention figuring our way around in strange cities. You get the idea. Plus it's no fun with just one!

Enter Suzanne, ( we hope!) Suzanne Grier is a Hillary friend that I made in Pennsylvania. She's also a friend of John West. She called me yesterday and said she is coming this way today. I hope she can stay and work with me for a while! She is a devoted Hillary supporter. She is spending her retirement money to do this. She says, "Hey, if we don't get Hillary elected, there will be no retirement!" She said she would love to join me in the Hillcar. She said, " We should atleast have fun with this ( Hillary) thing!"

Rainy night in West Virginia...

Today Melissa and I were feeling tired and a bit run-down so I decided to splurge and get a nice hotel in downtown Charleston for the night. Here is a rare view of the Hillcar taken from 9 stories above in the hotel room!



We then hit the road to two Bill rallies. The first one was in St. Alban. We buzzed the event a bunch of times and then decided to check out the town. We met a guy named Allen was a McCain supporter. He brought us to the "El Dorado Bar", where we quickly made quite a few friends!


They seemed genuinely happy to see us, they said they had read about the Hillcar in the newspaper this morning, plus saw it on the television... cool!


This girl said she is a Republican, but that she has already voted for Hillary Clinton. She gave me her reasons why. She was very versed on Hillary's policies, and especially liked her plans for education and student loans.

I met two other folks who were Republican, but who had decided to vote for Hillary!
And by the way, as we left our Republican friend Allen told us he has changed his mind and has decided to vote for Hillary!

Our second rally was a wash out, literally! It was raining so hard we could barely see the road!

Michigan and Florida

Let's work to include Michigan and Florida in the primary race!



Check out this petition!
Petition for Hillary

She deserves it, we deserve it!

Check this out! there's a lot of funny business going on in the Obama campaign!

.. and that's not all!



This seems to be only the tip of the iceberg!

Charleston

Today is a Bill-rally day! We will work this town right after this next cup of coffee!
Here's yesterday's Bill-look. What color would you call his tie? Melissa says violet. That sounds about right!

West Virginia loves Hillary!

... On a personal note!

We started our day on the Charleston Capitol steps, Kind of "Rocky" meets "Saturday Night Fever", or maybe not! Anyways, we were excited to be there!

After gearing up crowds, we listened to Hillary... as always, WOW!
When she saw me she said " Oh, you have a new Hill-suit! I was wondering if I'd see you again, do you have your car here?"
I said yes, it's here!
She said, "You've been getting a lot of great media", I agreed and said that we were working hard for her, and would keep working hard for her!
She then signed my new Hill-suit.


That's the high-light of my day! There was a lot of "great media" as well!

The cast...

I'd like to introduce you to some of the cast that makes Hillary's world go round. Of-course I am out-sider, but I find watching her world fascinating! I also find Hillary and Bill to be so inspirational, they are completely dedicated to our cause of making the world a better place! Any thoughts of anything less than fighting for all we are worth, giving less than everything we have and then some is not acceptable by Clinton standards, so please everyone... keep fighting for them because they are fighting for us!

Here is Barbara, she is Hillary's personal photographer. She seems very real, and is always very friendly, we all like her!



This is Capricia, I've never spoken to her. She seems completely dedicated to Hillary, extremely capable, and smart. Melissa and I wonder, who wouldn't want a Capricia watching out for you?

I don't know this guy, but he is always there. He seems bad-ass!

Here's our girl! Today's Hill-look is Pumpkin spice!

I will continue introducing the cast from my vantage point later, and continue with stories of the day!

...Off into the sunset!

We are heading off tonight to Charleston, West Virginia. There is a Hill-rally there at 8 AM tomorrow, plus a few Bill rallies tomorrow in various locations around the area. Is this where I start signing that John Denver song?

Full speed ahead!

Hillary is going full speed ahead, and so are we! Thanks to your generous donations, we will be traveling up to West Virginia ....full speed ahead!!




Today I will be putting a new muffler on the car, and making some new Hillsuits. Melissa is working on a painting job. Tomorrow we will hit the road!
Many thanks to the people of North Carolina, who joined in and Helped! You rock!

Raw talent!

We've got some very talented Hillarys out here today! We are on the corner of King and Queen street here in Boone, North Carolina! One more hour until the polls close... there seems to be a mostly Hillary supporters driving by here!



This kid can not only put his legs behind his neck, he can spin!
Now this is the kind of spin we LOVE when it comes to HIllary!