It was zero outdoors when I started up the car to drive down to Bedford. Sun was just coming up, little traffic at 7 AM and trusty Mercury hummed down I93 at 80 mph. Smooth and quiet, not a Statie to be seen.
The meeting started up at 10 AM with speeches. Endless speeches. All pleading for party unity, motherhood and apple pie. Nothing substantive, just happy talk. By noon we moved onto amendments to the party bylaws. The only useful amendment called for making a readable party platform, overall length of one typewritten page, planks less than a dozen words. That was voted down resoundingly.
Lunch break at 1:30. Note to self, next year, brown bag it. The party lunch was a $10 sandwich and chips. Pretty low speed sandwich, no where near as tasty as the Gold House or Porfido's.
It was 4 PM before we got to the only matter of substance, electing a new state party chairperson. Jennifer Horne defeated Andrew Hemingway, thank goodness. After that, I drove home, getting in after dark. A long day.
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