What Politicians have you met!!!! List em even if they are repukes

LynneSin

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Fri Jun-11-04 08:36 AM
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What Politicians have you met!!!! List em even if they are repukes

What politicians have you met!!! Not just show up where the person was speaking and you were lost in the crowd of thousands (That was what it was like when I saw Bill Clinton campaigning late October 92 at the Garden State Racetrack) but actually stood face to face, shook their hands and spoke actual words to them.

My list includes:

Howard Dean (Fundraising Brunch for Dean - I told him I hoped he'd help out the steelworkers who lost their pensions and he said he had heard about what had happen to Bethlehem Steel)

Al Gore - he was in Wilmington to campaign for a local candidate. I was working the registration table with fellow DUer Molly. Right before the program was starting, I was going over the list and finding doing some sort of mental math when Molly nudged me and told me to look up. There was Al Gore with his hand outstretched to me so I could shake it. I told him that I appreciated what he said in his speech last week in SF (he was blasting someone).

Ed Rendell, PA Governor - met him on the campaign trail many times

Ruth Ann Minner, DE GOvernor - She was doing some ceremony at Rodney Square in Wilmington. My friend and I were handing out flyers for the upcoming Will Pitt lecture and a brochure talking about an upcoming city council meeting where we wanted them to vote against the USPA. I had an Emily's List button on me (which Ruth Ann is a part of) and after the ceremony, I went up to Ruth Ann and gave her both an invitation to the lecture (didn't show up) and asked her to reject the USPA for the state of Delaware. Also told her I was a big fan of Emily's List so she didn't sic security on me

Joe Biden - several times both at fund raisers and his bi-yearly seminars. I got to listen to him after one of his seminars held right before the Iraq vote. I must say that Joe gave our small group some great insight to what was going on with those meetings with Bush and is probably why I wasn't completely upset when he voted for the Iraq thing because he really was expecting Bush to go through the UN.

Tom Carper - saw him at the DE AIDS walk. Our Dean group asked him to please support Howard Dean. He smiled and said he would think about it.

Charles Rangel - We had a memorial to mark the first aniversary of the Iraq quagmire at Dover Airforce Base. Charles Rangel was the only politician who came to the event and I had a chance to meet him afterwards. I thanked him for all he has done to support the peace cause and he autographed my program.

George Gekas, former Congressman from PA 17 and a dumbass repuke - I met him when I was a kid at a local carnival. I was in my teens and quite interested in politics at the time. He was probably campaigning and stopped by the carnival stand where I was working (Ring-a-Coke). I wanted to ask him about a career in politics and the old geezer gave me his business card and said it was "Good for a free soda in New Zealand" I'm not kidding you!! I was already heading down the progressive path and that just pushed me over the edge!!!