Burnt Orange Report

June 23

By Andrew Dobbs

I hope that everybody got a chance to see the governor's speech yesterday, I hear it was great.

Yes, despite the fact that I was on Church Street in downtown Burlington, Vermont I was unable to hear the speech. Instead, I was busy attempting to cover up a giant "Vote for Green Party" sign that some rabble rousers (apparantly not officially from the Greens- they called to apologize to us and to clarify that this was not them that did this) had decided to bring to the event. I did get to meet Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), both were friendly and Mrs. Jeffords was an absolute delight (I hear that Mrs. Leahy is also very nice, though I did not meet her).

Other than that I spent 13 hours (starting at 4:30 am) carrying heavy things and dealing with various head cases on the hottest day of the year- roughly 95 degrees all day. There were 6,000 people there, the governor rocked and it was very exciting, even if I am sore all over my body today. Nothing a few beers couldn't help. After the event and a nap most of the campaign went to Breakwaters, a restaurant on the waterfront, for dinner. 4 of us- including myself and Gray Brooks the guy from Alabama that introduced the governor- jumped into the lake. It was very fun.

Don't forget to vote in the Move On Primary today. If you have AOL they have been blocking the ballot as spam but you can request another ballot. There have also been some technical difficulties w/ Move On, they should be better soon, keep trying! Have a good one!