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I was sitting in the Clark reception room at the Hilton Suites near the corner where my local coordinator had gotten my handicapped ass a chair.
He started putting a couple of chairs next to me and asked if I would mind if Clark's son stood on those next to me to give a speech.
MIND?!?!?!? Was he KIDDING?
What a DREAMY guy he is! He sat down next to me and I asked him if he would mind if I drooled on him! He laughed and said, "Cut that out! I'll get a big head!"
He gave a rousing speech for his dad saying in part that this was more than a campaign against Bush - it was a campaign against hypocrisy.
People were lining up to get in the ball room ($50 a head with all the attending candidates speaking) and my husband, ACLYouth and I went outside to do "visibility" with our signs.
ACLYouth's has already been a BIG hit earlier, reading "He took 4 bullets, give him Tennessee" and mine was "That's why they call it a GENERAL election!" We stood outside waving signs and cheering. There was a group there with silver letters surrounded by blue lights spelling out Clark's name. Local NPR radio was interviewing (talked to my son), CNN, local tv, a truck from CBS Dallas (?), etc.
As we were out there the busses start rolling in and Clark is in the first one. He spies ACLYouth's sign while talking on his cell phone and gives this little smile and appears to read it out loud into his phone. We're all screaming CLARK at this point and he gets off the bus. Son got a handshake and he actually held onto my right hand while shaking 3 other people's hands.
It was AWESOME.
We had spent the day putting up over 30 signs in our County where they are not allowed, everywhere we thought we could get away with it (and a couple of places we were sure we couldn't - like the 2 signs we put in the right of way under the Tennessee Baptist Convention Sign!)
I'm in extreme pain right now but it was WORTH it!
I'll try and find coverage of the event on the local news later (no one is doing live) to see how the speeches went.
As an aside, the Clark and Edwards supporters were getting along really well and the Kerry people were nasty to both. I'm not sure why that was because I hadn't gotten that impression on a National scale so maybe it was just a local thing.
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