Rev. William J. Barber II, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign weighs in on Gov. Northam in WAPO:

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36. I was one of the VERY few "nobodies" there that evening.

A friend of mine edits a political weekly that has been around since the end of the civil war (the country's oldest continuously published political weekly). They were celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding, and she sent me a pro-forma invitation, and it was, by coincidence, a day when I actually WAS going to be in Washington (her publication is now based in New York, but the celebration was held in Washington). She was surprised when I accepted, and happy, since we usually don't get to see each other very often.

When I got there, I started with gulp, and then gulp, and then GULP! You should have seen who was there! I knew some of them from before, but there were plenty, including Barber, that I had never met before. To mention a few, Raúl Grijalva, Elizabeth Warren, Cecile Richards, Jerry Nadler, Steve Cohen, E.J. Dionne, John Nichols, Eleanor Clift, Dennis Kucinich, and, of course, William Barber. I shamelessly exploited the fact that Grijalva and Barber are a little slow on their feet to chat with them for a while, as I hadn't met either of them before.

You can see why I qualified as a token "nobody." I was perfectly content to be a nobody hanging with THIS crowd!
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