ANNEKE van Rooij from the Dutch town of Tiel hosts a large election sign for Kamala Harris in her yard. She has not lived in Gelderland for quite some time, but instead, after first spending a few years in Iowa, she now calls Wisconsin home, and there, as a Dutch immigrant, she has no right to vote. Regardless, she would like Kamala to win the election next week: “Anything but Trump.”
The yard signs (in addition to Harris, also one for Senator Tammy Baldwin) were given to her by the local Democratic party county headquarters. And after the driver of her daughters’ school bus alerted her to an election rally nearby, she attended an event with Bernie Sanders. “That driver is pretty much the only Democrat in her neighborhood. The signs in her yard have already been vandalized twice.” Anneke has since helped the bus driver hide a camera in a Halloween skeleton hoping to catch the perpetrators.
Her preference for Kamala is partly based on her desire that finally a woman will be in charge of the White House. “That really is high time, and not just there but in America’s major corporations as well,” she said. “A Harris victory will also give other women everywhere a leg up.”
