To recap:
As we mentioned (here, here, here, and here), NH State Rep Marilinda Garcia’s campaign (for US Congress, NH CD-2) had an event named “Race to Congress” to which it donated two Gold VIP passes to the event that we tried to raffle off during GrokTALK!. Unfortunately, I think our normal Saturday 9-11am listeners took one look skyward, saw the sun, saw no clouds, felt the warmth, felt no humidity, and vamoosed outside without setting their smartphones to listen in. So, I took advantage of the tickets and TMEW and I headed down to the NH Motorspeedway for last night’s event.
When we arrived, a Mustang car club was doing “hot laps” so TMEW and I knew we were in the right spot: roaring exhausts and the whine of superchargers spinning up. The Peter Parcel Band out of Boston provided the background music (for ONCE! a band that understood that political people not only want talk, they want to hear what their conversation partners are saying back) and then Jerry Gappens of the NH Motorspeedway arrived and in addition helping to set up “the accoutrements”, he introduced Marilinda Garcia (I had the chance to chat with him briefly – he is rightly proud of what goes on there starting in April all the way through racing season – and that the track distributes over $200K / year on causes for children). Marilinda then presented a quick talk on why running is important and why she should be the candidate as she wanted the attendees to enjoy getting on the track before dark (more on that later):
She did grant us time at the end of the event for a micro-interview (which will be posted tomorrow). Also, a bit more of the band after the jump:
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