“We’re going to pound the pavement, knock at doors and talk to the legislators. And we’re going to keep this up until something happens,” said Kathy Lee, who serves as Powhatan district captain for the Convention of States Project.

Lee first heard of the possibility to propose amendments to the Constitution under Article 5 on Mike Huckabee’s show on Fox News.

“I went online to look it up and I found the Conventions of States Project. I contacted them and went to a conference in Chesterfield County. They asked me to work for them and I said yes,” Lee said.

On a Friday evening this month, Lee hosted her first district meeting at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Powhatan County.

It was a cold and rainy night, and there was no large, fired-up crowd. Barely two dozen locals — most of them bringing a healthy dose of skepticism about a possible convention — came out to hear from the organization’s Virginia state director, J. Austin Powell, who believes a convention could put the country back on the right track.

Powhatan resident Danny Jackson said he stopped by because he is concerned with the way the country has been run.