Winning One in the Home State
Road Report from Ted Chiodo:
10-24-2006: With 14 decisive days remaining, John Kerry traveled to his home state of Massachusetts. We arrived into Boston late at night and were met by a energetic and sharp dressed Jason Meinineger, who volunteered some time to drive us around in a indigo black Chrysler minivan.
In the morning John Kerry and his traveling staff (yours truly included) headed west to Watertown Mass to the Perkins School for the Blind. There JK met up with soon-to-be Governor Deval Patrick. The two Democratic leaders met out front and headed in together through the neo-gothic archway.
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The Perkins School happens to be Helen Keller’s alma mater, and its mission of educating Americans with disabilities continues to this day. Perkins students were in high spirits, shaking hands and taking hugs from JK and Deval Patrick. The whole gaggle of press, staff, and the two leaders headed down the hall to the president’s office to meet our kind host, the president of Perkins School, Steven Rothstein. In the President’s office, Rothstein briefed JK and Deval on the issues facing Perkins students and Perkins alums.
After the briefing, John Kerry, Deval Patrick, and President Rothstein walked down the long corridor to Dwight Hall. The hall was packed with students, alumni, friends and press. As John Kerry and Deval Patrick walked in the crowd erupted into applause. I captured JK’s remarks and they are well worth the viewing: check out the video on our multimedia page. JK was forceful in his remarks that all Americans have equal rights and should have equal opportunity to cast their votes. Perkins motto, “all we see is possibility,” was poignant and relevant to the day’s events. When Deval Patrick is elected as governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, possibilities for change for our collective future will be readily possible.
After JK and Deval Patrick finished their remarks, the two men shook hands and posed for pictures with the students. We all had a great time, and if you’re a Massachusetts voter, let’s make sure Deval Patrick is elected this November!
And there’s more pictures from the Perkins visit here...
Mahalo!
-- Ted
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Hello Mr.Kerry My name is Amanda Brouws and i was wondering if you were running for president in 2008. If you could email me back with the answer to my question it would mean alot
Thanks for your time
Amanda Brouws
I just wanted to thank John and all of his hardworking (and perhaps underappreciated staff) for all your hard work during this most important of campaign seasons. You are truely an inspiration to us all!
All the money and effort that you have organized makes me feel better every day that we can begin to re-democratize this country from one-party rule.
All the best to you in your collective times of need.
You guys in Mass. are so gifted with such great politicians, I’m in awe. Its great to know that blue states such as Mass. and N.Y. ( my home state) will finally again truly be blue with Governors like Deval Patrick and Eliot Spitzer.
Hopefully this red state, Virginia will turn a truer shade of blue with Jim Webb and Phil Kellam in D.C. I’ll tell you one thing the fliers mailed to us daily by the RNC are totally disgusting and I hope Virginians wake up to this bullying.
Also I was just over to the Ned Lamont site and they have video up and some pictures of Senator Kerry and Ned Lamont at the event in Conn. today.
Enjoy.
http://nedlamont.com/blog