The Concord NH Meet-Up for Howard Dean was awesome–for example:
- I loved hearing people explain why they were there, many at their first meet-up. Several talked about ways the Bush team has damaged international cooperation. A lot were upset about the bad economy. One man talked about civil liberties. Another (a disgruntled Republican) talked about Bush’s big deficits. This was politics at a very local level, about 30 strangers, none of us experienced public speakers, trying to give a coherent account of what we wanted to change.
- I met some interesting people there, including a Concord hairdresser and a graphic designer who gave me a pin she’d designed herself. The pin has a Union label and says:
GIVE ‘EM HELL, HOWARD!
I also ran into a couple of friends of friends, including my brother Mark’s fourth grade teacher. (She talked about how much fun he was in class, and how you could hear his voice even when there were 30 other kids singing the same exact tune. *)
- Meet-Up was at the Green Martini (just across Pleasant St. Extension from local Dean for President headquarters.) I really enjoyed reading their list of drinks, including the Green Martini, and if I live to be 100 and go there every summer and try one, I will maybe eventually try them all. And they even serve breakfast (midnight to 2 a.m.)
* In 1998, a big melanoma killed my brother. If you ever have had a cancer removed, please be sure to keep going back to get regular checkups. Otherwise people who love you may end up missing you forever, and being grateful for a chance to talk about how nice it was to have you still in the world.
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1 Laura Reznick // Oct 19, 2003 at 12:54 pm
The Green Martini is an interesting restaurant…we ate there when we were up in Concord volunteering for the Dean campaign one weekend in August.