Funny Caucus Story

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by: NeonNurse

We had such good luck with having a group precinct caucus in 2008 in Prowers County that we decided to do the same thing this time. As the 2nd Vice Chair in Charge of Helping Get Stuff Done (and the only member of the Central Committee with a laptop), I was in charge of using the spreadsheet of registered Dems that State HQ had provided to direct people to their precinct table.

So I was sitting there at a table by the entrance when another member of our CC came bustling up. She wanted to know if I had gotten the email she had forwarded around that morning.

This email was from the Romanoff campaign, warning their supporters about various sneaky tricks they had somehow heard the Bennet people were planning to pull at precinct caucuses. I had read it with interest, wondering why I hadn’t gotten the memo guiding me to nefariousness. (I miss all the fun!)

I told her I had indeed gotten her forwarded email, and that so far I had not seen anything improper happening. I couldn’t resist teasing her a little, though.

“But you know those Bennet people who were going to show up early and pretend to be in charge of stuff?” I waved at myself and my laptop. “I’m afraid I’m one of them.”

6 thoughts on “Funny Caucus Story”

DavidThi808 says:

April 5, 2010 at 4:10 am

“I’m afraid I’m one of them.”

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peacemonger says:

April 5, 2010 at 6:29 am

I didn’t get the memo either.

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Gray in Mountains says:

April 6, 2010 at 2:54 am

My funny story: in Lake many like to think that no onefrom outside the county ought observe us. Dan Slater was there and the former chair and current county attorney approached him shaking his finger and telling Dan to get out of the county.

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1. NeonNurse says:
  
  April 6, 2010 at 4:00 am
  
  🙂
  
  We would let him come to our assembly next Saturday if he wanted to.
  
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studmuffin says:

April 7, 2010 at 6:37 pm

It sounds like every campaign has an evil story to tell about the opponent. The way I figure, you should keep your eyes open to any sort of fraudulent behavior going on, whether it’s your guy’s camp, or someone else’s.

It’s our job to see to it that everything is fair on election night.

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1. NeonNurse says:
  
  April 7, 2010 at 11:53 pm
  
  That’s why I ran a voter registration project in my county in 2008 and will do the same this year. As required by law, we treat everyone the same, whether they sign up as Ds, Rs or Us. The way I see it, the more people who take an interest and an active role in our citizen-led government, the better it will be.
  
  And the cleaner it looks to the lay-person, the weaker their argument that ‘it’s rigged so it doesn’t matter what I do’ becomes!
  
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