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…and tell me with a straight face that he doesn’t look like some kinda street person there.
Of course if he had posted this after we met at the Border Grille and Bar for dinner and drinks that night he would have known I wasn’t in the picture.
Everybody knows The Camp of the Saints has THE shot of me from the North end.
Q: What is the difference between Robert Stacy McCain when he is making a political point and when you are in a bar with him while he is holding court and having a few?
Oh and BTW while we were at the Boarder Grille and Bar in Leominster first for supper and then for beer there was one interesting change. As I’ve mentioned before, everywhere I go I ask the people what they think of the election and what people are saying about it. The bar was the first time that a person told us that people were talking about the race.
And what did young lady of a bartender say? Everybody hates Martha Coakley and likes Scott Brown.
The times they are a-changin!
Update: One disadvantage of posting at 2 a.m. when you have been up since 6 a.m. and driving all around the state is you forget your manners, I didn’t give a shout out to the authors of American Glob or Left bank of the Charles who came to Leominster to Join us till the wee hours of the morning. My bad guys the next round is on me.
…questions concerning a political race but if you are a Sicilian in the north end you fit in like a glove. Even a small(?) blogger can get some questions in.
Once Stacy and I got on the ground we separated a bit. I tended to notice the Italians who actually live in these narrow streets. They liked Brown and turned out for him but the crowd of outsiders, particularly the press, who had congregated in the neighborhood elicited the normal glances and comments in Italian among them that are the rule when any group of tourists/outsiders visit.
Rudy however got none of that, he fits in here like a native and was treated accordingly.
I spent all my time listening not so much to the speeches but watching the crowd and how it reacted. The crowd was friendly and excited tasting victory. They pressed to get close to the candidate and to get their questions in, Mr. Brown was very accommodating both at the Paul Revere statue and at the Fire Station. The highlight was during the walk to Cafe Vittoria where a woman who didn’t know was was going on handed Rudy a baby and took a picture of her son held by Rudy and Scott Brown together. Alas I do not have that picture but that is the photo of day.
I asked Rudy the same question that I asked Joe Malone, who once ran against Ted Kennedy for the Senate years ago. Can this be the start of a republican resurgence in Massachusetts? Rudy contended that Republicans had won before and can win again here. Joe said that the bend of the political cycle is producing a lot of interested parties to challenge democrats on the local level, which is how Tip O’Neill first flipped the statehouse in the 50’s.
For Stacy’s take on events check out here for today’s events and make sure you catch his coverage from yesterday here and here, he will be uploading the photos that I neglected to take.
More to come later, I have a son to pick up from school and then a former President to dog.
Update: This Brown ad has that photo of the day in it.
I am actually standing directly behind the cameraman during the entire “walk’, out of sight in the classic Sicilian way.
…well not quite a stranger. Robert Stacy McCain is on his way up here and by the time this scheduled post goes up he should be just arriving in Boston via AmTrak. We will be bopping (does anyone say “bopping” anymore?) around the state a bit to see what we can see concerning the Brown campaign and he will likely be posting both from the road and from my house, likely with a Wachusett Country Ale in his hand as he does.
As my laptop battery is dead and I’m not inclined to buy a new one for a machine that is old and falling over my remote blogging might be limited but Robert Stacy will have the story so keep an eye over there for some first rate reporting.
Maybe the first story he can cover is the absolutely shattering surprise Boston Globe endorsement of Coakley.
Who woulda thunk it? I couldn’t be more shocked if I found enmity between RedSox and Yankee fans.
Update: Linked by Camp of the saints, Thanks Bob.
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