Lessons from the Obama 2012 Grassroots Campaign: What Two Devoted Volunteers Learned

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Al Krause and Ruth Higgins have been together since 1992. She was living in Salt Lake City and he was living in San Francisco. They met in the home of friends in Seattle and they married in the same house in 1994. Ruth, who grew up near Vancouver, BC, first worked in hospital medical records, then quality measurement and improvement. A graduate of Westminster College in Utah she earned an MBA at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, MO, she held management positions with the Veterans Administration, the University of Utah Medical Center and Chinese Hospital in San Francisco. Al, a graduate of Westminster College in Pennsylvania, served three years in the Army Security Agency, including a tour in Korea. He worked ten years in advertising in Philadelphia and over thirty years in public relations in San Francisco primarily in his own firms. Old enough to collect Social Security, but too young to retire, they moved to Birch Bay, WA in 2003, where they've written articles for local and national publications and been active in community affairs.