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Pretty slow today other than Ford (the one that employs 1,900 people) closing up shop. A chance to catch up on some Votetracker work and watch the Cubs (by the way, is there anybody in Chicago that can sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" on key?). I have to post something, I guess, since you were kind enough to come see if there's anything new. There's not. But here's a picture of Ford Bell looking pretty much like, well, Ford Bell at a forum today.
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Wait a minute! Is that a Polinaut nugget I see? Yep, sure is. I'm saved! What the heck is this all about?
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I mean, c'mon, you're a candidate for the U.S. Senate, who wears a "hello, my name is" label when you're a candidate for the U.S. Senate?
Anyway, in the interest of fairness, here's Mark Kennedy looking Mark Kennedyish.
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Note the absence of the "hello, my name is" thing. What do we have in its place?
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An American flag. Who you going to vote for? Someone who needs a sticker? Or the greatest country in the whole world? (Is that Amy Madigan's speech before the town school board in Field of Dreams I hear?)
(I struck this line because, well, too many of you thought this was a serious statement. Go figure.) By the way, if you want to wear a sticker, you know what sticker you wear? Your campaign sticker.
Here's the story behind the story. A worker with the sponsoring organization, who was in charge of labels, peeled off the Kennedy sticker and started to put it on the congressman. Just then, a staffer -- seeing the developing problem -- lunged forward and arrived just in time as the hand put the sticker right in the middle of the staffer's forehead. What was cool is there was that Bionic Woman "na na na na na" sound as the near calamity was unfolding.
Or maybe not.
Anyway, can't tell you about the forum. We needed another reporter on the Ford story and Mark Zdechlik was pulled from the Senate event to go to the plant and find out, I guess, what it's like to be told you're losing your job.
Where was Amy Klobuchar? Don't know, but she wasn't at the event. I did see a press release cross the fax where she declared her support for Ford workers. Not exactly the kind of stuff we run through the newsroom with shouting "interrupt programming!"
(Update-- Wait. This just in. There was a "scheduling conflict" and the Klobuchar team tried to reschedule but it didn't work out. She contends she tried to arrange a new date with the Kennedy folks but they refused. Film at 11.)
You know what would be funny? If sometime a politician showed up at a debate wearing this:
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If only there were still humor in politics.
