CTBlogger caught the Danbury News Times in a bit of a (well, actually, a colossal) stretcher yesterday. According to the Times, Linda McMahon and yesterday’s news Scott Brown drew 2,500 people to a rally yesterday:
A crowd estimated at about 2,500 people stood waiting to hear from the senator and the woman who hopes to join him on Capitol Hill with a victory over Democratic candidate Richard Blumenthal on Nov. 2.
CTBlogger rather exhaustively documented that the crowd was about one tenth of that figure. He must have drawn blood, because if you go the News Times article now, here’s what you see:
A crowd in the hundreds stood waiting to hear from the senator and the woman who hopes to join him on Capitol Hill with a victory over Democratic candidate Richard Blumenthal on Nov. 2.
There’s a slide show still up at the News Times article, in which the crowd size is artfully masked. Does someone have an agenda?
Meanwhile, here in Groton, we hosted Dick Blumenthal yesterday at our headquarters. He was here to meet with the folks who were pounding the pavement going door to door in support of his candidacy. Truth to tell, he didn’t draw even 250 people, but the event had not been publicized like Linda’s, and wasn’t for the general public. So I’d say the dozens of people he did draw compared favorably to Linda’s crowd. Let’s just say that Linda has a problem getting things that money can’t buy, like loyalty and enthusiasm.
Not everyone was there to ring doorbells, since we had another event going on (manning a booth at the Groton Fall Festival, which Blumenthal visited later, where he was warmly received by the Festival visitors) and since some folks weren’t in shape for long walks, like Ted Hurlock, of Groton, a WW II vet who showed up especially to see Blumenthal and have his picture taken. I thought the picture below was better than the posed shots.
Dick wasn’t the only politician making the rounds at the Festival. In fact, Groton was swarming with federal and statewide candidates yesterday. Here’s Joe Courtney with Amy Moncy and Joe’s staffer and former Grotonite, John Hollay:
Denise Merrill dropped by. Here she’s checking out a display by the Fitch High School robotics team:
Kevin Lembo and George Jepsen were also working the crowd, but I couldn’t find them, so no pics. Denise Nappier also came by headquarters, and I presume, the festival, though I can’t swear to that. I hadn’t met Denise before, but we have something in common as we both graduated from Hartford Public High School, so we had a politics free conversation about good old HPHS. She was year behind me. I will spare her and not specify the years.
Well, that’s it from me on this Sunday morning. I defy anyone to detect any kind of structural unity in the above post.
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