Not the only campaign in town

It was quite the political event, and not just in the Presidential and Gubernatorial spheres.  I saw my fellow Select Board candidates there – Diana Stein, Irv Rhodes and Aaron Hayden.  I also saw the Town Manager and all the current Select Board members, with the exception of Hwei-Ling Greeney – who is both current and a candidate – and who no doubt was busy doing her good work at Not Bread Alone.    

This was my first time seeing Governor Patrick “live.”  I was impressed by how long he spent chatting and shaking hands with people in the crowd afterwards.  He probably has a lot of places he needs to stump for Obama today, but he sure didn’t rush away when he was done speaking.

And have I mentioned our indefatigable State Rep Ellen Story?  She’s everywhere.  In the past couple of weeks, I have seen her at a Chamber Breakfast, the Habitat house dedication, the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, the four-towns Regional Schools meeting, and now this.  State Senator Stan Rosenberg attends lots of events also (I saw him at the Town’s 250^th Anniversary Celebration fundraiser, as well as at the Habitat dedication) but Ellen is ubiquitous.  And she has a real gift for remembering people’s names.