[AGL] Miss Piggy Strikes Up the Band

[Frances Morey]

Harry,
  Campaigns are no more than long drawn out play-ettes. By the time the candidate goes national they've learned to talk in sound bites, show up for photo ops, and never let us see them sweat. They say the same loop over and over mechanically and you wonder how they can have the stamina to keep forming the words. Carole KMCRS is the mistress of the esprit d'escalier. Thats French for tossing remarks over their shoulder while turning their back to news gatherers, having the last word and launching pot shots. Kinky out good-ol'-boys the good-ol'-boys and has his own loop of meaningless palaver-on-a-reel. I wonder how many signatories are attached to both his and the one tough gramma's petitions, indeed. It's all imagery. 
  Don't you know that words have no meaning since Bush became spokesman for America? They all might as well be saying bla bla bla bla bla bla. 
  Chris Bell is the diametric opposite. He says relevant things, describes programs to make government work better that he pledges to champion, if elected, and speaks to to the minds and hearts of people with moral spine. He is the real thing.
  I don't care who you support or who you vote for. I'm too old to give a damn who is elected at the local and state level. They'er gonna do what they're gonna do whether I pay attention or not.
  Yes, the senate race in NYC will determine if HRC can attain the immortality of greatness or simply become a footnote in history, the little ol' first lady that couldn't.
  But I think she can, I think she can.
  Best, 
  Frances
  

Harry Edwards <laughingwolf at ev1.net> wrote:
  SoS rebukes Strayhorn over boxes

It appears that the Tough Grandma had to distribute her petitions 
throughout a large number of boxes in order to make them easier to 
carry. That's the explanation her campaign manager gives anyway, but 
the Secretary of State's office isn't buying it:

“As our staff is beginning to consolidate and organize all of the 
petitions that Ms. Strayhorn turned in yesterday, we have consolidated 
her 101 boxes (of petitions) down to 12,” says Scott Haywood, 
communications director for the Secretary of State’s office. Haywood is 
not sure what the agency will do with the leftover cartons (all 101 
delivered Tuesday were slapped with Strayhorn bumper stickers). He made 
it clear that Strayhorn did not fill boxes to the brim. “If she had not 
been so hungry for media attention, we would not have had to waste time 
consolidating her petitions into a more usable format. By trying to get 
a bigger play in the media, she has made the process more 
time-consuming for our office.”

The retort from Brad McClellan, the comptroller's son, mentions the 
outsized burden of paper:

“Try organizing one box full or carrying one full,” McClellan said. 
“It’s a shame they waste time doing this cheap partisan attack.”

The post goes on to report (accurately) that the Kinkster will be 
delivering his signatures to the Secretary of State tomorrow. Yes 
indeed--there will be bringing tightly packed, signature-filled boxes.

And we'll be bringing the muscle to carry them.

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