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What Drives One Campaign Worker? Just Ask Her.
“I want some dignity — integrity and dignity — back in the White House.”
The power behind the candidate.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Kristina Somma doesn’t seem the sort to make a big show, but she showed up.
The 61-year-old retired kindergarten teacher sat Thursday night in a small, charmless storefront in a small, charmless strip mall down the street, and across the street, and cater-cornered from, more of the same. The room was a Hollywood cliche version of a bare-bones political campaign office: folding chairs, folding tables, cases of water, snacks, posters featuring the candidate’s name running along the walls, throwing off the harsh reverb of bargain lighting.