What a Campaign Brings........

Elections are unique in what you get and experience--emails from volunteers complaining about not getting some gas money help who don't want to give you their address to mail a check to, getting calls from businesses about signs being put on their property without their permission by supposedly my volunteers that meant well but did not follow instructions about only putting up a sign with the owner's permission (obviously the sign was removed--I am not even sure it was one of my volunteers as when the sign was put up, I had no volunteer crews out putting up signs!), calls from code enforcement about their prior restraint "permit" ordinances for placement of signs on even private property, calls from people trying to drag you into "protesting" something they believe would help your campaign and of course, the pre-election piece from the newspaper that misquotes you--all this in a five to six hour period today. Yesterday, spoke with an advocacy group, picked up a half dozen callers, some interesting information and confirmed a radio appearance date. I met with a supporter that has emailed all of his friends and backers reminding them to vote and who took a few signs to put up in places where my signs, on private property, put up with the permission of the owners, were taken down not once, but two previous times. Busy.