This is Greg (aka "Major Danby"), Campaign Manager for Ron "CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream" Shepston out here in CA-42, with one piece of good news and one very sad one. The good news is that Ron, hekebolos, and I will be headed to Chicago for some meetings a week from today, and we'd like to meet people from this site and the netroots generally. More on that after the jump.
First, I need to cover the sad news. This diary was supposed to have gone up last Friday, but it was delayed due to the death of Ron's mother in Illinois that morning, or I should say delayed by my own not quite knowing how to approach writing it after learning of her death. Ron has been deeply broken up by his mom's passing and, until calling him just now to get his permission to use the quote below, I've been giving him his privacy since then while he spends time with his family in the Midwest. (This Chicago trip was, as a subsidiary benefit, to have been a chance for him and his wife to take a trip and see her again.) His mother's memorial service was today. Ron did mention one thing, though, in a message to some of us close to his campaign last week, that I think bears retelling.
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