Below is a link to my photobucket album that has the videos of this past Monday’s Sussex GOP meeting. Where we fight the good fight down here in the swamps.
Maybe you got better things to do with your life than watch videos of a bunch of yahoos but folks, I had to run like the dickens to get these tapes because they were going to take my camera! My husband said they couldn’t do that, that my videotaping was perfectly legal but they said I was breaking the law. I got home and uploaded it right away.
Might be worth the bother to see how damn mad we are down here in the swamps.
Anyway, Ron Sams is the head of the Sussex GOP. Great guy and I spent many an afternoon talking for hours, about politics, natch, in the Georgetown, Del GOP office where I volunteered. That was quite the job for me and it’s where I met Mike Castle and could talk the ear off of everybody who dropped in.
Only Ron, hey, he went over to the dark side or something. His wife fell down and had a major brain injury right about the time when my husband was recovering from a brain infection. They were both in the same hospital upstate and I corresponded with Ron, telling him about brains and such, what little I knew.
Now as for Don Ayotte. I “met” him online, at the local Blog site Delawarepolitics.net. Turns out he lives near me but I never knew the guy. He’s a journalist and now writes regularly for Redstate.com. He’s also a writer for Delawarepolitics.net and I, hey, go with me here, but I always had something to say, know that’s hard to believe.
I NEVER, not ever, not NEVER, post on any Blog site or web site although I’ve had plenty of offers, once wrote for Blogcritics. It never lasts. I WILL NOT BE EDITED.
Of course this pretty much confines me to Facebook, where I do have quite a following, including every elected official in Sussex county, but I’m okay with that. You pay a price for your independence.
But like I post for this site, it’s how I do on others. Just me, my big mouthed independent self.
One day Don puts up a post on Delawarepolitics.net on me, it was great. He said he thought I was a true patriot, a wonderful writer, someone he admired.
I was very surprised and pleased, well who wouldn’t be?
So at the meeting this past Monday, remember Don is the fellow who put himself up to replace Tom Ross and so made that stupid “parliamentarian” mad. So this fellow comes up and right next to me, I’m not making this up, is an empty chair. The guy says “Can I sit here?”
I knew it was Don because, well he was all shouting and carrying on earlier in the evening but I also knew that Don didn’t know me. As he sat down I debated introducing myself.
I kind of consider myself a scribe of the people, if I should be so bold. My Facebook page is quite big and I like it that I can call people assholes and not be edited. I don’t really care to much for a lot of attention but, heh, shit happens.
So as Don sits down I lean over and say “Don?” “Yes” he responds. I take my name tag and turn it so he can see my name “PAT FISH”.
Right in the middle of the meeting he shouts....PAT FISH???!!!???
I smile.
He stands up and pulls me up to him and gives me the biggest hug, right in front of everybody at the meeting, well damn, it was kind of great and a bit embarrassing.
“You are the only writer in the world better than me,” he shouts out and Ron Sams is up front...dag, last month Ron Sams wouldn’t leave my side at the Christmas GOP meeting, I think trying to get on my good side cause I got a keyboard and they all read it.
And of course I’m a better writer than Don but he does ok.
Ron’s up front conducting this meeting, folks I’m not making this up....and he pounds the gavel and tells me and Don to get a room....
....anyway, it’s a story....heh.
I did post the story of the meeting on my Facebook and I’m now a member of this Sussex Conservative Coalition Caucus but you know what? I’m not going to any meetings because...
...all I wanna be is the scribe.
Great job Fish. Hold them all accountable!