At 2:31 in the morning, I was bored and avoiding work. I just watched West Wing which is currently in the middle of Election night for a presidential election. So I googled my old Bosses at the Kerry Campaign.
Corey Ealons is the Communications Director for a Congressman.
Fran Lalas just ended working on a New York Lieutenant Governor’s race.
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And Myesha Ward is testifying against Democrats in Wisconsin.
Myseha was sent to Wisconsin in late September, 2004. And apparently the night before election night, some Democrats weren’t too kind to Republicans.
In the spirit of Campaigns…Here are some Clips:
The phrase “Operation Elephant Takeover” came up innocently enough, said Democratic consultant Opel Simmons III, at a staff meeting to search for “just kind of a rallying point” in the home stretch of the 2004 Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.
Witnesses at the trial of five Democratic staffers accused of slashing tires on 25 vans outside Republican Party offices in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 2, 2004, said the “operation” was originally just a slogan on a dry-erase board, but as election day neared, it became an agenda for hijinks.
The plan was to decorate the Republican headquarters on W. Capitol Drive with Kerry-Edwards signs and bumper stickers before the polls opened. But it didn’t quite work out that way once a few staffers drove by the GOP office on their way to Democratic headquarters late that night.
“We were prepared to go, but then when they came back, they said there were security guards that were circling the office,” Myesha Ward, one of several political operatives who came from outside Wisconsin to aid Democratic efforts, testified Thursday. “So we decided to call it off.”
Source: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20060113/ai_n16010146#continue
You can find the play by play here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/states/wicharge012405.htm
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