Could be the fever I'm running...could be the fact its my birthday I'm alone in my house in New Mexico, but I'm feeling guilty and just want to say "I'm Sorry".
For most of this election cycle I've been traveling back and forth from the U.K. to New Mexico..and then we purchased another home in Denver that needed to be set up. To say my life has been a bit of a scramble would be an understatement, but that still does not forgive me for my shortcomings.
Lots was happening here in New Mexico this year. It was a time of huge opportunity and we came through. New Mexico is now Blue. Blue as can be but it didn't happen with just New Mexicans alone.
We had an amazing number of people traveling from out of state to help this state recognize Hope. Understand that New Mexico isn't an easy state to work any campaign in. Miles between small towns, hot, hot weather..and unfortunately the entire state does not look like Taos.
Combine that with local Democratic organizations that are pretty darn inactive (heck, I hosted five fundraisers here in Southern New Mexico before I even found out we had a local organization) and its a receipe for hard work and lots of starting from scratch.
I did my usual hosting of fundraisers, introducing candidates to communities, networking, writing checks...but there were some who visit this board that were either in this state, had friends in this state, etc., etc....and I kept missing you.
Sheesh, I wanted to donate the book I won in our Netroots Auction to someone who sent troops to New Mexico from Texas and I even managed to screw that up.
So..I'm sorry. I know its not enough to just sit back and write checks, I could have at least made sure that you were spoiled with a dinner...done more to make it easier on you.
Sure probably part of its the fever but right now I feel like a dirt sandwich.
Give me time to get organized, to catch my breath, to even know where I'm going to be from week to week, and I promise I'll do better next time.