This is my first diary and I don't know what I'm doing, but I feel like I have to put this somewhere.
My husband was out poll-standing morning for Ned Lamont at an elementary school in Milford, Connecticut. He showed up at 6:10 with his signs and little pass-out cards ready for a day of enthusiastic Nedrenaline. I'm really excited about his enthusiasm, because before the first debate, he was on the fence, but after seeing both Ned and Joe in action, he has been 100% behind Ned.
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So my husband is the first one there, in the dark, in his little Ned Lamont watch cap and his "Stand Up For Change" t-shirt. Right off the bat an old guy shows up and my husband said, "Hey! I hope you'll consider voting for Ned Lamont today!" and the guy said, "I'm not voting for that guy!" My husband thought, Bless his heart, as they say in Texas. It was pretty quiet after that. A volunteer for our State Senator, Gail Slossberg, was the only other one who showed up to stand there with him within the next hour.
Then the fun began. At around 7:00, a car pulled up and a woman wearing a suit got out. A Fox News truck had been there all morning, and the woman began asking the Fox News cameraman where to place the signs to keep them in the frame. They started putting out Joe signs right in front of the Lamont signs. Around 7:15 a car with Massachusetts plates and an "I'm with Joe" bumper sticker showed up and put up about 30 signs. Cars with New York plates and Joe bumper stickers were pulling up all over the place. My husband stepped inside to get on his cell to call the Lamont people to tell them what was going on.
When he came back around 7:30 it was PANDEMONIUM! A black town car with Connecticut plates and the tag number 2 pulled up--you may know this one--pulled up and out stepped Joe, shaking hands with Jim Amann, a Milford resident, and, I'm so ashamed to say, Speaker of the House in Connecticut. What a douchebag. Other people had shown up seemingly from nowhere: two firemen from Stamford in yellow t-shirts, fawning Fans of Joe with hands for him to shake, including a typical Mom & Pop straight from Central Casting, and, oh, here he comes, the symbol of our inability to locate Joe for the last six years--the bloodhound!!! After they'd set up this typical Milford scene, they proceeded to interview Joe on Fox & Friends. At least he chose a hard-hitting venue to get his message out. After the taping was over, everyone dispersed, gotta go, and, my husband said, it was like one of those cartoons where the whirlwind leaves just a little piece of paper to flutter softly to the ground.
As an aside, my husband told me that not a few people said to him while this was going on that while it was fun to shake a Senator's hand, they were voting for Ned.
Aw what the heck, it's my first diary, let's do a poll: