Andrew Gerlach

My Interests:

Politics

Political Skills:

Canvassing (door to door), phone banking, flyering, tabling, begging for money, general networking, writing press releases. Current Field Director for the MSU Democrats, Former Paid Canvasser for Clean Water Action, and have worked with Practical Political Consulting (Mark Grebner's Firm). Currently Interning for DemStaff in the State Senate.

Favorite Quote:

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet, Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
-William Butler (W.B.) Yeats

About Me:

I am a student at Michigan State University in the James Madison College for Public Policy. I am a Political Theory and International Relations major. I have been with the MSU Democrats since I have been attending the University in August of 2006. I have been their field director since May of 2007, in which I successfully organized more than 20 volunteers to register more than 3,000 voters on campus with the help of Mark Grebner's PPC (Practical Political Consulting) and his organizer Penelope Tsernouglu, who in turn got me invovled with MMDFA through facebook.

Preofessionally, I worked for clean water action as a paid canvasser in the summer of 2007, and after that I began interning with the Democratic Caucus Staff in the State Senate in September of 2007. I also take the CATA bus system everywhere, so the issue of public transportation has a special place in my heart (and wallet).