12/05/2007

Bet the House on Bill

I do not make a lot of predictions in this blog, other than my routine and unerringly accurate one that our President will do something in the succeeding 72 hours to further secure his place as one of the worst in our country's history. But today I am making an exception: Bill Carson will be the next State Representative from the 28th district.

On Monday, I celebrated the gale force winds and bone chilling temperatures by spending part of the afternoon knocking on doors with Bill in Smyrna. Actually, we were right in Bruce Ennis's neighborhood--if I had wanted to, I could have bounced a rock right off his window, except that Grace was home and she would have come out and kicked my butt. Anyway, it wasn't Bill's neighborhood, but I don't think we knocked on two doors all day where the people who answered the door--Democrats, Republicans, and Independents--didn't know Bill and have great things to say about him. It really was amazing--I have knocked on doors with a lot of candidates, and I have never seen anything like it.

Tonight, I am attending a fundraiser that some friends in Philadelphia are throwing for me. If I see Billy King moping around with his pockets turned inside out, I will say "why don't you ask Chris Webber for some money, smart guy?"

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