I have long been involved in politics in general and campaigns in particular.
The first campaign I work on was Mo Udall's. Ol' Second Place Mo.
I was a giddy eighth grader in a gifted program in Phoenix when I met, and fell hopelessly for, this tall, funny, congenial man named Mo. I kept a scrapbook on the campaign (it's in a box somewhere), volunteered on the phones, and stuffed envelopes.
That election was my first, in a long line, of political disappointments.
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