Hit the road from Windsor CT about 8:30 am on Monday Feb 8
We're on a 3 day 2 nite Primary adventure to put in some good work on the campaign trail to do what we can for a big NH win for Bernie.
Fellow Bernster AL Simon is joining in on this trip..our mission - to start out - was to get to Brentwood NH to do some time on the doors, visiting voters and making sure they get out to vote for Bernie.
Last night, I signed up for 3 Bernie events just in case my Iowa cold wiped me out from door knocking
While on the road..I got a text from Bernie staff asking If I could help volunteer for the events..the usual crew was all out working on GOTV and event volunteers were hard to find today.
So we headed to Manchester NH instead of Brentwood and went into the toasty, empty Palace theater..Got assigned to help with media...
My apologies to the GOTV crowd..but it was 20 degree and now snowing...and they really needed event help
So we stayed..
AL screened media and was assigned to be a media bouncer for unruly media types.
A month ago Bernie media staff managed the 20 or 30 media folk that were covering him...easily
Now they have 300 media and the same staff...all of a sudden they are paying attention...that's good..its a YOUGE job.
I guarded media seats...guided folks to make their appropriate spots..help cameras get set and plugged into.power and the audio feeds.
Did what I could to manage the hoards.
I was busy..AL was bouncing..
Jake Tapper from CNN was there.. I talked with Joe Scarborough the morning Joe guy
And now that Bernie has got secret service coverage there's a lot of complexity in who can go where, so I did a lot of guiding...
This revolution is now heavily televised...
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Bernie came on..after an absolute ton of event prep and incredible logistics management... and wowed the excited crowd with his usual cranky raspy inspiration.
Bernie was extra raspy..seems like he caught the same cold I have...but Bernie seems to still be more energized...
Great speech...electric crowd...made for TV
The event was over ..and we were recruited to to.media volunteering in Derry...off we went to another event...
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