Rockstar activists Mary Jo O'Rourke, Mike Mosolf, and Richard Taylor joined the Change that Works crew at Jaycee park in Dillon on one of the nicer evenings of the tour for a canvass of downtown neighborhoods. During our canvass, over 90% of the people we talked to filled out our healthcare survey, and a good portion of those individuals wanted to write a letter to congress and become more involved in our campaign.

On the doors, we came across a woman named Ava who was thankful for the insurance she received through work. She was thankful not for her sake, but for the sake of her husband who has recently been in and out of the hospitals for a chronic condition. Without her insurance, they would have no way of paying back the mountain of bills that has piled up over the course of his illness. Ava and her husband both filled out our survey and wrote a letter to all three of their congressmen.

Wrapping up in Dillon, we shared a lawn with a Bible Study Camp playing a game of soccer. When they found out what we were working on, the leader of the group shared his story about not having insurance, his concerns for his children, who are currently on CHIP, and wished us good luck as we continued the final leg of our journey across the state.