I have written several comments about meeting Al Platt who is running for the NC House. He's a very nice man and has had a long distinguished career in creating and designing conservation easements to conserve the mountain forests of the Blue Ridge.
I got a yard sign at an event and put it in front of my house thinking that no one would see it b/c my house is in a weird place. Well, there are 3 people that would see it at all, the property manager, my neighbor and another guy who walks by to wash laundry.
Well, today my neighbor, a very MAGA Republican and a black woman, stopped by to tell me that she voted for "the man on your sign". She went to vote, actually spoke to him in person, and said she really liked what he had to say and that he knew her home town. She was just a-glow. She stopped by to talk to the Clampitt table nest and the guy wouldn't get off the phone and they roundly ignored her. They probably thought that a black woman would never seriously consider voting for a Republican and just blew her off. Big mistake on their part, as she would have voted strait R if they had even pretended like she existed.
So she voted for Al Platt! My humble little yard sign absolutely won Al Platt a vote and took a vote away from Clampitt here in W NC!!!