Melva London, a Katrina evacuee living in Houston, volunteered at the Barack Obama campaign headquarters in Houston on Friday. An estimated 100,000 evacuees remain in Texas.
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Katrina evacuees a large, silent force
Only small portion within Texas are registered to vote
Melva London, a Katrina evacuee living in Houston, volunteered at the Barack Obama campaign headquarters in Houston on Friday. An estimated 100,000 evacuees remain in Texas.
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HOUSTON - When Melva London, a committed Democratic activist in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, relocated to Houston after Hurricane Katrina, she quickly changed her registration so she could vote in Texas. But even though she decided long ago to support Barack Obama, the 55-year-old London did not feel comfortable canvassing her new neighbors on his behalf, knocking on strangers' doors in ... (Full article: 1085 words)
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