Bill Gunn can consider his campaign a HUGE success if he gets 30% of the vote.
Let me tell you this: If John Olver’s campaign is so worried that about two photos and a couple of youtube videos from a blogger in a hat that his guys have to pull the only sign I see in town then perhaps Bill Gunn is not the one who might be lucky to get 30% in November.
While marching in parade yesterday, what appeared to be a 17yr old boy asked me if I was passing out free candy. I told him “NO, I’m the kind of guy that says get a job and buy your own candy.” The look on his face was priceless, a conservative is born.
(BTW Ten spots are nice but volunteering is better!)
Update: Holy guacamole! two instalanches in two days! I was so busy telling my Eddie Long/New Hope church Story to even notice till now. Ma-1 (along with Ma-6 & ma-5 & ma-10) are all incredible pickup opportunities that are being ignored. After you are done giving to Bill take a look at Bill Hudak in Ma-6 and Jon Golnik in Ma-5 and Jeff Perry in ma-10.
In fact check my twitter feed for today where I went over each race congressional race in Massachusetts, I’ve been predicting 3 seats in mass but there are 6 seats that could turn in this state, 7 if you count Barney Frank’s. The other two contested seats while a tough slog have good candidates and are worth fighting for too!
For all of those hundreds of faculty and administration who were e-mailed about the appearance and for all their students in history or government classes who were either uninterested or uninformed about a congressional candidate taking questions on campus here is some photos/video:
One of two stand out locations
Supporters stood out for Bill
Heading for the hall
They engaged students nearby
The Ex Mayor before the event
The ex mayor of Fitchburg arranged the hall, strangely enough I recall the lights being on and the bus for my kid being free when he was mayor.
State Sen candidate Neal Heeren showed up
Candidate Neal Heeren showed up as well
It would be untrue to say there were no students there except the one setting up the mike, there was a student there, unfortunately she didn’t go to Fitchburg state:
My camera had a write error so the first 20 minutes of Bill’s speech was lost, he talked about accountability and told a story of a person who although a voter who lives in the first district was told by Olver that she “wasn’t a constituent” when he found out she disagreed with him on issues.
The remainder of the speech comes in 4 parts
When the camera card filled I switched cards as quickly as possible
I found it really strange that an Audio visual department didn’t film this
When Bill was done he invited Neal Heeren to make his pitch:
He then took questions I show them individually:
I asked him about apathy:
Most answers were quick:
His answer on regulation was long, detailed and informed:
Nobody asked him about the war, (he wants the troops home, I disagree with him on this one) likely if the college kids were there he would have been asked. When everything was done I went back to Megan and asked her what she thought:
If the turnout among youth voters is an indication of the “Obama excitement” then democrats, be afraid, be very afraid.
Before the Bill Gunn event I talked to several students on campus, none of them planned on going to the event. Very few wanted to talk on Camera but there were two exceptions, the first was Paige Dugay:
After she talked to me she and her friends posed for a picture:
None of my friends in college looked like this
Being a D&D geek when I was at Fitchburg State I never once hung with any group remotely resembling this one. Even my wife to be considered me a dork back then, likely due to the lack of Fedora.
Later on Christine Bilotas gave me some of her time:
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