The balance of the day
I spent the rest of the day crunching voter lists. One has telephone numbers, the others don't. There are more people in the Orlando area than all of the State of Alaska. It's taking me longer than I wanted to, but these numbers will be passed on to a phone bank and those voters will be contacted. They might be reminded to early vote (people can do that in Florida), or be offered rides to the polls if they need that.
The end of the day the entire office took off to the airport. The Kerry plane is followed by the another plane filled entirely by press and other staff. As the Kerry plane lands first come all the staff out the back of the plane, and the big man comes out the middle. The crowd goes wild, although the "Kerry, Kerry, Kerry" chant is a little bit lame. John Kerry came right over to the line where the crowd was waiting for him. He spent quite a bit of time trying to shake hands and speak to the kids in the front line. Some people had him sign some voter cards, one woman had Kerry sign the "Rolling Stone" cover. That could fetch some money at a future auction.
Oh yeah, I shook the future president's hand. Mostly though I was busy trying to get the camera to work.
Then he took off and was followed by two buses, secret service vans and about thirty or so motorcycle cops. Don't like the color of Kerry's campaign plane? Wait a few months, he'll be flying around in Air Force One. Much better colors. The other photo is the local press on the bandstand behind the crowd line.
Tomorrow more work, 4 days to go.
The end of the day the entire office took off to the airport. The Kerry plane is followed by the another plane filled entirely by press and other staff. As the Kerry plane lands first come all the staff out the back of the plane, and the big man comes out the middle. The crowd goes wild, although the "Kerry, Kerry, Kerry" chant is a little bit lame. John Kerry came right over to the line where the crowd was waiting for him. He spent quite a bit of time trying to shake hands and speak to the kids in the front line. Some people had him sign some voter cards, one woman had Kerry sign the "Rolling Stone" cover. That could fetch some money at a future auction.
Oh yeah, I shook the future president's hand. Mostly though I was busy trying to get the camera to work.
Then he took off and was followed by two buses, secret service vans and about thirty or so motorcycle cops. Don't like the color of Kerry's campaign plane? Wait a few months, he'll be flying around in Air Force One. Much better colors. The other photo is the local press on the bandstand behind the crowd line.
Tomorrow more work, 4 days to go.
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