[FReeper Silly is] Poll-watching during Massachusetts’ historic January 2010 special election

LoudCitizen.org ^ | January 18, 2010 | Paul Klenk

[Silly]

PART I: January 18, 2010 – Today I heard about an opportunity to poll watch in tomorrow’s historic special election in Massachusetts. Of course, I jumped at the chance and responded. Moments later, my contact at Americans for Limited Government was on the line with me, making my train reservation and exchanging cell phone numbers. Then I threw together a suitcase and ran out the door to catch the subway from Astoria, Queens to Penn Station.

I had just exhausted myself on Saturday, January 16 in Agawam, Mass. with The New York Young Republican Club, in a door-to-door get-out-the-vote effort for senate hopeful Scott Brown. After that long day, I could barely muster the strength to make Internet phone bank calls for Brown from my dusty bedroom. But when I saw this job come up in today’s Facebook newsfeed, I grabbed it. High on the list of motivating factors was an opportunity to dine with fellow patriots after the day’s labors and get “liquored up.”

For those of you in transit from Jupiter, or living in a dark, muddy ditch in Venezuela, Brown has a chance to take the U.S. Senate seat vacated when Edward “Teddy” Kennedy departed to meet his maker in 2009. If successful Tuesday, Brown will destroy the Dem’s supermajority, complicate the push for ObamaCare™, and sink a sharp knife deeply into Obama’s already rapidly failing presidency. Brown’s opponent is the singularly uninspiring Martha Coakley, known to some of her most ardent supporters as “Marcia.” It’s a close race – which is why poll-watching is vital – but I am hopeful for a win.

So tonight, riding in business class on Amtrak’s exceptional Acela Express to Boston, I am meeting someone holding a sign, to be whisked to Woburn’s Hampton Inn and hopefully given some training, a late meal, and some suds.

On the train, I’m relaxing with Tarantino’s Basterds on my laptop, texting hotel details to my family, drinking Corona, typing this article, and calling the hotel to see if they have wifi (they do), and food (yes, hot breakfast and close proximity to Joe’s Bar and Grill). They’re thirty minutes from Boston’s South Station; the map I managed to snap on screen before I packed my laptop indicates that there’s a Peet’s Coffee and Tea two blocks from the station, so perhaps it was in God’s plan that I forgot to replenish my Starbucks on last night’s grocery run. Guess I’ll be leaving for the station an hour early Wednesday and driving everyone in my Amtrak car crazy from the smell.

“Pick up your penny and your suitcase,” sings ELO on my laptop’s iTunes at this very moment. Well, on my budget, this is exactly what I’m doing tonight. “Hold on tight to your dreams,” they continue on the next track. But freedom is not a dream; it is a concrete, obtainable reality. A reality we can lose, yes, but definitely not a mere dream. I’m holding on tight anyway.

I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but I’m sure I’ll be ready to make a difference at the polls. By happenstance, I had a clean purple T-shirt in my laundry, so I packed it. Maybe this will confuse the SEIU thugs likely to be lurking menacingly at my assigned polling place, or maybe it will just piss them off. Either way, it’s a win.

I’ll check in late tomorrow in Part II with a full report of the day. Meanwhile, please pray for a win for Brown. And pray hard.

[Silly]

Today I am poll-watching in Boston with media teams consisting of a reporter, a videographer, and a driver. While we watch for irregularities and call them in to our center, the media teams wait to be dispatched to capture video and write stories for the major media.

Last night we were briefed about what our job is, what to expect, and how to react if anything happens. Today it's all about observing and reporting.

I have a bombshell to share in Part II tonight. After we've finished for the day and had dinner (very late), I'll share with you the identity of the reporter on my media team. Clue: She's hot. Very hot.

[Cross-posted at BlogsLucianneLoves.com]

[Silly]

Please ping your lists. I’ll be off line today while poll watching, but will report back here tonight with details.

[Jemian]

Ping for later.

[Silly]

Please ping your lists. I’ll be off line today while poll watching, but will report back here tonight with details.

[beaversmom]

Go get’em. Good luck to you and Brown.

[Silly]

Thanks!

[RandallFlagg]

I’ll send a ping when I get home from work this morning.

Don’t forget a camera and a FRiend with another camera.

[free1977free]

Please, contact your parents, brothers, sisters, close conservative friends to be poll watchers too!

[Maine Mariner]

Yes, good luck and thanks for taking the time to do this.
People like you will see that very little fraud will occur today.

I am not sure how much will occur-it takes time to crank up a fraud machine and 3 weeks ago no one in MA thought it was necessary. If 1,000,000 people vote and Brown gets
550,000 and Annie Coakley gets 450,000, the Rats need to steal exactly 50,001 votes-not easy to do on short notice.
More difficult to do with people like you!

[Silly]

Thanks!

[prisoner6]

Marking for laters! Can't wait! THANKS!

prisoner6

[Silly]

You’re welcome!

[SueRae]

OUTSTANDING! Our prayers for Scott Brown and our gratitude for those of you up there helping to make a difference for those of us who can’t be there in person.

[Silly]

Thanks!

[ladyL]

I am so impressed by your passion and committment. With citizens like you we can get our country back one election at a tme. Thank you for your help.

[Silly]

Hey, they were serving food — how could I say no?! LOL!

[fatima]

You go Silly.Your a good little writer Too.((((((Hugs))))))

[Lazamataz]

I love you.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Hi... I'm Martha Coakley...

"If I were to tell the press that millions of Americans would be blown up by an Iranian nutcase, or that your Congress has stolen the entire contents of your savings with health care "reform" or bailouts, nobody panics, because it's all part of the plan...

But, if I tell the press a few homosexuals are upset over their little wee wees in California, why, everyone just loses their minds!"

And I thought my jokes were bad...

Oh, and the purple SEIU suit, it's not cheap, you ought to know, you paid for it...

HOW ABOUT A MAGIC TRICK???

If Scott Brown wins this election, little Obama here won't be able to pimp his grandma for a nickel...

A guy like me... Look, I know why the bar associations have little group therapy sessions in secret ... The Batgirl (Sarah Palin)...

And that McCain on the television, the Batgirl has no juridiction anymore, she'll make him squeal... I know the squealers when I see them...

[hoosiermama]

Thanks for report Silly...Got a ping list for tonight? Stay safe.