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July 29, 2006
My first canvassing
George Johnson's folks were doing a canvassing this morning with several candidates from the Democratic party in my district. I wasn't sure what to expect, so I got my campaign cards together and headed down to participate. Joan Cadden and Ron Bateman were there and a bunch of George's people. We were given something called walking lists. Basically it's all the registered voters in the state database for a given street. Basically they give you literature to drop off at each house and you go down the list until you are done with the street. It's a fairly slow affair. You've got to wait for people to come to the door and then you have to figure out where to leave the literature if no one answers and so on. Pretty straight forward stuff. So I did that for a few hours.
Ron Bateman was even more impressive in person. I definitely will be able to maintain my sense of security in Anne Arundel County with him taking over for George. Solid guy with great kids who were helping him out. I'm more and more impressed each day with the quality of Democratic candidates for public office in this county. I completely understand now the utter horror the Republicans are feeling this year as they march their slate of wannabees and pretenders up against the cream of the crop. It's definitely not going to be a good year for them.
Joan Cadden has been representing us since we moved here, she had the dubious task of trying to work with both Dwyer and Leopold, so I'm thinking of nominating her for sainthood before long. She's a much stronger person than I could ever be! She's bounced around on my list of candidates I'm happy with and those that I am not. But every time I talk to her in person, she always manages to win me back over to liking her again. She's got a tough job and it's hard not to respect her for the patience of Job she's been having to sport in Annapolis. I try to give her a grief about not having a campaign website every time I see her, she still hasn't bought into the notion, but I get the feeling she's weakening. ;)
I was really impressed with the Johnson folks, they thought of everything. They gave us bags for the literature, it included bumper stickers, shirt stickers, and cold bottled water for us to drink in addition to the literature we were dropping. What really impressed me was that given that my candidacy is everything that is wrong with the Democratic party, they asked for my literature to include in this weekend's efforts. Either they are completely unaware that I'm the doom of the party or they aren't worried that it will matter. Given that I'm running for a position with no power or responsibility, I think the latter is probably the most likely.
Posted by Jamison at July 29, 2006 2:24 PM
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