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Obama Party (sort of)

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Obama lawn signs have been flying out of headquarters as fast as we can get them. We scheduled an event today to give out the signs we expected to arrive on Friday, along with any other Obama paraphernalia anyone wanted. The signs did arrive, but by 2:00 today, when the event started, the signs were […]

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Lest I forget

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

One and all are invited to join us here at Groton Democratic Headquarters (where I am right now) tomorrow night for the third and final debate. We are located at 303 Route 12 in Groton. Look for the GEICO sign. This one should be interesting. McCain has promised to go negative to Obama’s face. How […]

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Signs of Fall

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Yesterday the Town of Groton sponsored the annual Fall Festival at Poquonnock Plains Park, and we Democrats had a booth, pictured below. Lots of folks stopped by and had their pictures taken with Barack. We registered some voters, handed out pins, and gave people yard signs. Actually, so far as Obama signs are concerned, we […]

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Big night at Drinking Liberally

Thursday, October 2, 2008

By far the biggest night we’ve had. Over 30 people according to my wife’s count. Here we are drinking liberally: And here we are, or some of us, watching the debate: A quick observation about the debate. Had she been anyone else but Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin would have been mocked for her performance tonight. […]

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Debate Party Tomorrow

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Everyone’s invited to Groton Democratic Headquarters at 303 Route 12 (Geico Insurance Building) to watch Barack Obama either crush John McCain or debate an empty chair. We had pretty good turnout for the acceptance speech, and we’re hoping for good turnout tomorrow. If you want to be an extra good Democrat, drop by at around […]

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Courtney Fund Raiser

Sunday, September 21, 2008

A little diversion as we contemplate the prospect of Congress giving Henry Paulson, a creature of Wall Street, unfettered power to help out his Wall Street buddies. Our own Congressman, who it would be nice to hope would resist the pressure to back this Christmas present to the greedy, is having a fundraiser here in […]

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Local Plug

Friday, September 19, 2008

If you look at the roll of Connecticut Blogs on the right, you may notice a new entry. The Town of Groton has a Groton Town Hall Centennial Blog. Yes, that’s right, our town hall is 100 years old this year. As I understand it, the Town Hall was donated to the town by Morton […]

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Upcoming events

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

My wife and I just returned from a meeting at Waterford Democratic Headquarters, where Andrew Bray, Courtney’s field co-ordinator, went over the ground rules for phone and door to door canvassing. I confess to being there under somewhat false pretenses. I have hated the phone since I was small, and I can’t stand going door […]

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Yet another Drinking Liberally coming up

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

How can we not have a good time Thursday night, 6:30 at the Bulkeley House on Bank Street in New London. We had a great convention, and the Republicans are disintegrating. One of our members can now completely relax; his worst fears have not been realized. Joe Lieberman was not the VP nominee. On the […]

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Party Time

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Live blogging at Groton Headquarters. It’s still early, and we’re hoping for a bigger crowd, but it’s already getting a bit crowded. I’m sitting here by computer, which will serve as back up television, if we have an overflow. Some pictures: Mary and Liz (above) manning the table at the entrance. The assembled multitudes watch […]

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