Last night I made a stopped in to cheer on the school board ladies in their debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters. We had a pretty full house- not every seat was filled but the room was at least 2/3 full. Dorworth was there also and several members of the Executive Committe including Jim Stelling, Sharon and the girls, and Sandy Adam’s right hand gal. I can’t remember her name. oops!

Anyway, it was a good debate. I wasn’t really up on all the logistics that they were talking about- but gimme a break. I’ve only been here a year. But I understood the political posturing and other tactics used.

My take is that the school board ladies looked good. They came across as the most intelligent and had the most thought out answers of everyone on the panel. I suppose it comes down to this: they know their s*** ! Their opponents many times had to stumble to get their words out.

Afterward, I hung around and listened in on the room murmur to get everyone else’s take. I overheard that Jeanne and Diane are both polling well. But that it is Sandy that is in danger of losing her seat. This is in part due to the 3 man race. People are just not sure that she will get enough votes to make it to the runoff. I sure hope she does. But she still needs our help.

Today, Mark and I went to the Gallagher Rally downtown. It was great. We saw Jim Stelling, Ariel Christenson, and some OCYR’s there. (By my estimate about 50 turned out for this event.) We cheered and waited for the bus. Tom greeted everyone outside. Then we went inside. They had a short program. Then Tom posed for pictures, signed autographs ( another one to add to my collection), and listened to voters concerns.

He was very positive about the race. Many of his comments today centered around florida families, right to life, and gay marriage. He stressed the importance of protecting Florida’s families- and why we need to send a family to the governor’s mansion not a bachelor. lol. He was accompanied by his wife Laura, who stood by him during his speech. Son Christopher was not in attendance today- since it was a school day and he missed a day last week for the debate. But he mentioned that Chris would be joining him again soon enough on the campaign trail.

The past two days have been good and a lot has been accomplished so far. We still have four days to go so get out, make appearances, walk for candidates, pass out literature, call voters, work the polls- let’s do what we can to get good Republicans elected to office.