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Tuesday, 10 August 04 ::
a, b, campaign!
a) your comments! i love them, i read them, they make me smile! thank you! but i suck at replying. i'm sorry. but really, in a crappy moment i'll get a comment and it'll un-crap the moment :) so, just cause i suck at replying, it doesn't mean i don't pay attention, because i DO!
b) beth! your sorbet recipe! yes, please do send it to me! i should really email you.
c) the other day i wrote about doing the numbers for the campaign. i wrote about it being scary, but i wrote about knowing that if i did it my role would be more defined..
the numbers mean that i worked to rank the 30 voting precincts that make up the east lane county commissioner's seat. which precincts we'll spend the most time on, which one's we hit only if we've got the time.
i did the numbers. the numbers have made co-manager d smile. the numbers have made kitty's (our mayoral candidate who won the primary and therefore will be the only name on the november ballot) campaign manager who is helping us out big time smile. its made me smile to know that i can pull it off.
hopefully in the next couple of days we're gonna meet with someone who has done a lot of this in the past. we're going to meet with him to talk about the numbers and to have someone back me up in the big meeting on monday. i'm nervous, because i'm afraid that i've totally done a bad job. but i built an explanation about how i came to my numbers into my word document and excel sheet. i've got a whole other set of numbers that show how i came to my conclusions. so, my process is all written out. if i did this right, it can only look good for me. if they don't, hopefully our co-managers will give me the weekend to fix them. i want to do this right. hopefully it will get folks to give me more due in the big meeting.
things are better this week. we're moving into our office, my role in the campaign is becoming more and more defined. i've processed with everyone, i had a nice conversation with co-manager d yesterday. she's a good person. we are going to be sharing office space with the lane county kerry campaign, and local democratic races.
and yes, kerry is going to be in eugene on thursday night. the event is only a media event. :P i say. i wanna see him. yes, i'd go and support him.
bush and kerry are both going to be in portland on friday. bushy is meeting with local businesses, kerry is doing a public rally. i think bushy is afraid of portland. his father called it 'little beirut'.. so, right, he should be. but if he wants to be the WAR president he shouldn't be so afraid of a bunch of oregonians. yeesh.. we might hold signs, we might yell really loud.. some of us break windows.. but people? no. fuck, we don't even like hurting trees or eating meat. we're too nice, if we were to knock him down we'd help him up, giving him a piece of our mind, but we'd help him up, dust him off, apologize, and offer to hug him out of brother and sisterhood between the common people.
so bushy is coming to oregon and he's afraid of us. i don't think a man who is afraid of oregonians should be running this country. no, because if he thinks we're scary then i wonder what he must think about the canadians.. i mean, yeesh.. they are REALLY nice. my goddess, and those brits.. well, hell... from my small experience, people are actually very nice everywhere.
anyhow.
there are commercials from bushy about wanting americans to own something. a house, a healthcare plan, etc.. thats great to say, but i'm just curious as to HOW that'll happen. really. is he going to ship US overseas? hell, if i can take my cats i'll be first in line to sign up for that program. i wonder if the average person watching those ads are wondering the "how" and not just hearing the "i'll get more stuff!" message.
and lastly, i guess.. i saw a bushy campaign spokesperson. hell, i'm seeing SO many commercials (oregon is a swing state, yeeehaww.).. and i'm wondering how all those people appearing in those commercials, how that spokesperson who looked pretty smart, got duped. how did they get duped to support the man? and i'm also wondering what they all thought of monica lewinsky, and i'm wondering what they think of a president who lied about things that are sacraficing the lives of so many innocents, the jobs and families of so many other innocents. i'm really wondering what they think of lies that affect the nation, the world. i mean, clinton's lies only affected hilary and monica. i'm wondering where on the iq scale all these people who are supporting a man and his lies fall. but really, i guess, i should feel sorry for them because they are simply so stupid.
time for bed. a lot to do tommorrow.
posted by brooke at August 10, 2004 11:29 PM
i'll dig out the sorbet recipe for you over the weekend. it's good :)
posted by: beth at August 12, 2004 02:15 AM
