This meeting was at Tilton, NH, a little bit north on Concord on I93. Word had been circulated by email that Moveon.org was sending demonstrators to protest Senator Ayotte's vote against Obama's gun control bill in the Senate. In fact, I spread some emails urging people to come to express support for Kelly. I arrived an hour early, and we all ready had people gathering with signs. The Kelly Ayotte supporters stood on one side of the driveway, the Moveon.org people on the other. I counted about 12 on each side.
Once the meeting got started inside it was fairly clear that the ordinary Republicans vastly out numbered the moveon people. The place had some 300 seats and every one was full. They had a bullpen for the video cameras. There was an NBC TV satellite truck parked out side.
Kelly drew repeated rounds of applause from the floor. Tax reform, and spending reduction got big hands. Someone asked about "Common Core" (curriculum) and Kelly drew more applause when she came out in favor of local control of education. A few of the moveon people tried to get the floor by shouting from the audience but it didn't work for them. It was a good event for Kelly, and I don't think she is going to have much trouble getting re elected four years from now. The crowd was clearly on her side.
I was gonna post a few pic, but the picture uploader in blogspot is broken, again.
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