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3. thank you so much for telling me your take on it, janet118!
Mon Jun 4, 2012, 12:51 AM
Jun 2012

i agree with you almost entirely!!

i was in awe of Governor Patrick, who has always been a magnificent speaker, but seems to just get better and better!!

i wrote a friend that Elizabeth Warren turns out to be a rock star, exciting the crowd, then exciting us more as we excited her, asking for more the more we gave. i loved it!! i was amazed by her passion!!

i had been confused, and somewhat frustrated by the lengthy vote tabulating, but i had not even thought of what you said here, and i now see: "Many people left before the final count was in and the result was a dissipation of a lot of positive energy from the activist members of the party. We are going to need every bit of it to get out the vote." yes, absolutely!! i do feel that the positive energy was the reason for that amazing vote, and so will endure, and even be fed by that outcome.

i am sorry the food problem was troubling for you. i know it was for many. i had arrived in time to eat breakfast that morning, and munched through all the breakfast speeches. i did see some people go out to eateries around the center for take-out, but no one let anyone know we could, nor did anyone see to there being an official lunch break. i am sure that was because someone misguidedly believed the entire convention would end by one.

i definitely agree about the tornado victims and food!! "Gee, I hope they provided them with better food." YES!! but then, they had agencies pouring support in from all sides!!


it might have been a mistake to convene where so much is in the process of being redistricted, on top of three natural disasters in the last year!!! it was already a depressed city before those .... but then, it would also have been a problem if it had NOT been held in western mass this time.

thank you, again, for your thoughts!! and for caring so much that you made that trip!!

i, too, am very happy with the outcome!! JOYOUS, in fact!!!









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