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Friday, 13 August 04 ::
awoke.. grumpy
i awoke grumpy. i awoke to my tv blaring stuff about john kerry speaking over in springfield (right next door, and yes that john kerry).
it was a closed event. this whole john kerry business in the eugene / springfield area. last night i went down to the coordinated campaign to do some work and to also see if i could ferret out any information on this mornings secret location, but nary a peep came. i did get the work done though.
i think it would have been good for mr. kerry to publicly speak here in eugene. this bastion of liberalism and we hate the mainstreamism. it would have beehoved him to try to convince some of the local nader supporters of his worthiness for the whitehouse.
why? because people in eugene organize. they organize and write and send their messages all over the state. yes, portland does its thing, and eugene does do a lot of its own thing, but we reach our tenticles out. and when the stakes are as high as they are this year, he needs to do everything he can to make sure that he can to get EVERY vote. he needs to be concerned about nader in this state. and the nader supporters in eugene.
i'm also grumpy because the event was held in one of the more rich areas of springfield. it was my understanding that kerry was going to talk to people who were suffering from the bushy economy.. not people who were able to buy nice houses up off the flood plain. i wish i'd known the advanced team was having such a hard time finding someone who was suffering.. fuck, i should have just offered up my apartment building. lots of people here to talk to mr. kerry.
and lastly, the last reason i'm grumpy (about this kerry visit). the news keeps saying that gore only won oregon by 6,000 votes in 2000. well, thats true. but what is also true is that nader got 77,000 votes. so, if nader hadn't been a factor gore would have won by, say, at least 41,000 votes. i think its kinda ridiculous to assume that nader voters in 2000 would be bushy voters this year. yes, nader is a factor in oregon, but i'll admit, not nearly as big as he was in 2000. personally i only know about 2-3 people who are advocating for nader this year. most people have wisened up about the issue. (i say wisened up, cause i was a gore voter in 2000, esp. after reading 'my american history' by sarah shulman, a book about the reagan-bush era, an era that i was busily going through pre-puberty and puberty and then kayaking during, so i wasn't paying that much attention).
*agh*
water is boiling for coffee. this is good. i need to be nice for a meeting at noon today.
posted by brooke at August 13, 2004 10:03 AM
