'Kookies for Kamala' is all about activating Philly kids -- and alliteration
As Beyoncé’s music pulsed from a speaker, some of East Mount Airy’s most ardent Kamala Harris supporters gathered on a leafy sidewalk corner Sunday morning.
It’ll be at least a decade until many of them can vote. Yet local grade-school children were holding their second “Kookies for Kamala” bake sale, bagging up treats and collecting handfuls of cash from passersby at the corner of Durham and Crittenden Streets.
For $1 a cookie and $2 a bag, all sales were considered donations that will be put toward Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign against former President Donald Trump, according to their parents. The group raised $2,031 in three hours Sunday, on top of $680 from the first sale two weeks ago.
“The energy, the hope that’s in the air right now, it’s just contagious,” said Raissa Schickel, who thought up the idea along with her 8-year-old daughter, Kaia, and partner, Lauren Silver, earlier this month as Democrats’ excitement over the Harris-Tim Walz ticket ballooned.
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