Hello from Beacon NY, ok well I think its actually Hopewell Junction, but Beacon has a train station. You read that diary title correctly, we are live in the Keeler household. First things first, I am going to post and run, or more like post and sleep. Tomorrow morning we get up at 4 (my alarm is set for 4:30) and head out to greet Duchess county.
I asked the campaign if they had any use for me if I took off election day and they said sure come up. I asked if there was anything going on early Tuesday that they could use me for and they said sure come on up.
I am a city boy and got my political training in NYC just two plus years ago volunteering for a guy named Dean. In the city state senate districts change every ten blocks or so. Up here you can drive for an hour and half and still be in Brian's district. It is a different world, but a Democrat is a Democrat and the message we are taking to the voters is a need for change in Albany just as much as we need change in DC.
Brian grinned and told me there was wireless as he gave me the quick tour. This is the campaign that brings you blograisers and has the Governor of Montana chatting away with us in a bar in NYC. So of course there is wireless, this is Brian's house. So I figured I must share what goes on behind the scenes. Brian's wife is in the kitchen making soup from what I heard for volunteers tomorrow. Their cat just came in and sniffed me. CNN is on in the other room talking about some election. Is tomorrow a big day or something? Brian went off to get some sleep, we need him well rested for the interviews of the new Senator from the 41st district. He is tired. And understandably so. This guy like many other heroes out there took up the call to run for office and has not let up for one second. Ignore the fact that a Democrat has not won this seat since FDR held it as the start to an amazing career of public service. No one appears to have told him that because he is running like he plans to win this thing. And that is the passion that brought me here.
Brian seemed tired and I told him he can get plenty of rest Wednesday. He commented that it is such an abrupt point tomorrow, that afterwards there is no more campaigning. I said maybe we can start canvassing again Wednesday, I have a few hours in the morning I can spare for him. He laughed at the idea, and thought maybe he would continue to go up to people and just introduce himself as Brian and just talk. He wondered what he would say. I suggested maybe we could use it as the start to his re-election campaign.
So goodnight to all of our candidates and volunteers. Thanks for all the work you are putting in in your neck of the woods. We can all sleep Wednesday, except Brian. The Senator will have work to do.