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Fair and Square

August 10, 2008 by Lauren 11 Comments

Well, we did our part at the fair.  I’m all for being helpful as long as it involves sitting on my bottom doing nearly nothing.  Lloyd was helpful to the Republicans, too.  Our booths were not in the same aisle in the Ag Pavilion, but we checked in on each other occasionally.  He even snapped a photo so we’d have something to post about at the end of this long day.  Unfortunately, the dude at the table and I are not looking our best, what with his boxers hanging out and me stuffing my face with free popcorn from our bank.  Mrs. Prochnow looks lovely, though.  She is truly one of the nicest people you’ll every meet in your life.  Guaranteed. It was fun sitting with her – she knew everybody that came by!

Schmoozin’ with the peeps.

How was your Sunday?

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: preschool, voting

Nebraska Republican Convention

July 13, 2008 by Lloyd 22 Comments

30 letters and a candybar asking for my vote (that’s, like $13.00 in postage)

On Saturday I fulfilled my duties as a Seward County Delegate to the Nebraska State Republican Convention. So if anything goes wrong in the world in the next 4 years you can pretty much blame me. I road to the convention with Mark Kolterman. He’s the new chairman of the Seward County Republican Party, and he told me that the day after the county convention he received phone calls from the Omaha World Harold and the Nebraska Republican Party chairman asking if it was true that Ron Paul supporters had taken over the Seward County convention. He assured them that that had not happened, but that two of the four Seward county delegates were Ron Paul supporters. Mark’s thoughts on the Ron Paul supporters were echoed multiple times at the state convention: We will need everyone we can get to elect John McCain in November. In a move that I think surprised all of the Ron Paul supporters in attendance, one of the first orders of business was to seat those delegates who had been elected in “irregular” county conventions. These delegates were almost entirely Ron Paul supporters and it was an impressive display of inclusiveness.

Voting on Delegates

All in all there were 54 Ron Paul supporters out of about 340 total delegates. We were only loosely organized; about two weeks prior to the convention we formed a Nebraska chapter of the Republican Liberty Caucus. We had buttons to identify each other and a handful of candidates that we wanted to send to the National Convention. It was fun. “Back room” deals were made with other blocks of voters to send delegates to the national convention. We are sending one of the nine congressional district delegates (this was unexpected as it was quite unlikely) and a few at large delegates and alternates. In fact, all of our delegates were elected. We should have had more ready to send, but we were all new at this.

We were not at all ready to offer resolutions or changes to the state party platform, and the amendments that were offered were soundly defeated (although on one a division of the house was called for. That was exciting). One of the amendments what was offered by the delegation from one of Nebraska’s Western counties we an eleven point amendment. Some of them were poorly worded and no one was in the mood to debate them all separately, so, although I heard several (non-liberty caucus) people say they agreed with most of the amendment, it went down in flames.

Before the convention

There were tons of speeches from all of our (many) Nebraska Republicans in office and one very vicious speech by the Chairman of the National Republican Party. The speeches were very similar and were along the lines of, “We’ve been acting like democrats, we have to get back to our roots, we’ll all have to work hard to elect John McCain, because his Republican ideas are the only way to protect our great country.” But it took several hours the way they said it. Interestingly, Nebraska (republican) senator Chuck Hagel was a Persona non grata at the convention. He was not mentioned once and was often referenced in mysterious terms: “She was working in his office and it was suggested that she lay low for awhile, so she’s not at the convention.”

There were lots of other things that I found interesting, but this post is already too long.

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Just call me First Lady

May 15, 2008 by Lauren 13 Comments

I’m riding on Lloyd’s coattails of fame again. He’s been elected as some sort of delegate, whatever that means. I don’t know why they did that – he’s terrible at delegating things. He’s all ‘If you want something done right, do it yourself’.

The official announcement was delivered by a government official to the box we have affixed on the outside of our house for important deliveries such as these. We also received an important document from Bank of America that we should OPEN IMMEDIATELY! for a new card with low…. never mind, that’s sensitive information.

I love how official the certificate looks! It’s chock-full of herebys and dulys and whereofs. My very favorite is the last line: “In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 14th day of May, 2008.” It really makes that faded stamp look historic.

I shoulda RickRolled ya, Peggy.

Oh, Sherry, our love goes on.  goes on.

Oh, all comments must include either hereby, duly, whereof or hereunto. Double points for using all of them.

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren, Lloyd Tagged With: politics, voting

Lloyd’s Ron Paul Party

January 12, 2008 by Lauren 9 Comments

Today was a day unlike any other. Lloyd stood out in the freezing (really, 32 degrees), windy cold for an hour and proclaimed his support of Ron Paul with over a dozen other people. How do I know? Because I stood there with them. Sure, I’ll support Ron Paul – as long as it gets Lloyd to go shopping with me afterwards. We had ‘Honk 4 Ron Paul’ signs, so lots of cars honked – woo hoo! Some disagreeable people chose to show their disapproval with the naughty finger, but overall it was a positive experience. Lloyd even got all dressed up for the occasion – haircut, shave, nice coat. It’s like we were on a date. A date with Ron Paul.
Lauren took a break to run to Shopko to make the Honk 4 signs

Did I mention that it was freezing, and that we were facing the wind? I haven’t been that cold in a long, long time. I must really love Ron Paul, whoever he is. Go Ron Paul!

Our across-the-street neighbors

I’m sure Lloyd will want to mess up this post with his ‘facts’ about the ‘issues’.

Lloyd Here: It’s been a long time since I was that cold. I think it must have been one of the first two Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades. After the first two we had it down to a science. Just what layers we needed and where, how many pairs of socks, long underwear, sweats… If it was an article of clothing, we wore it.

There were about eight people who didn’t have signs but luckily my 25 yard signs came yesterday. It was a pretty diverse group 6 girls and maybe 9 guys, some little kids too (they were cute). It was mostly people from Lincoln, but there were some from Crete too.

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