Got up this morning for the Oregon delegation breakfast and thought, 'why should I take the camera to breakfast? boring...' so, I didn't. Bad move.
Who was speaking to us?: Senator McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, and Caroline Kennedy! and no camera!
John went off to a vet's event at Bunker Hill, which he said was great but not very well attended. Note: they need a good communications officer and they don't have one at all. Can't imagine why that wouldn't be a priority.
I went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with the delegation and our congressman, David Wu. We took, of course, the bus. We had this great private lecture by one of the profs there (Blandon, I think) who is a specialist in polling. He gave some great insights into the polling process and this election. Scary, too, though. We got a free book, and then some t-shirts that said No vote, No voice.
I split off from the group cuz they were going back to the hotel. I wandered around the Harvard campus, went to the Harvard art museums, and ate at Harvard Square. When I got back to the hotel, there was total gridlock outside of it. There were swarms of riot police in full gear. What in the world?, I thought. There was a policeman standing in the doorway who didn't want to let me in and I had to show my room key. Apparently, Howard Dean and Michael Moore were inside doing some sort of speaking engagement (which John and I knew absolutely nothing about...note above about the poor communication) and they were being ultra-security-concious. There must have been about 25 police surrounding our hotel for about 3 hours.
We napped and then headed out for a party for Oregon's governor, hosted for the Oregon delegation by Union Pacific. There was lots of booze, lots of great food, music, etc. Wow...we dems could get used to this. I hear that our events are nothing compared to the events at the republican conventions.
John is at the convention right now and I am here writing this to you.
Can't wait to see what tomorrow holds.
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