“I can tell you that there is an enthusiasm drop-down compared to last time around. Now, what will happen as we get close to the race, who knows?”
In trying to get caught back up from the weekend in Providence, I failed to see this email when it first came in (reformatted here):
Skip —
Was hoping to run into you at tonight’s Guinta kick-off. Just looking for some perspective on the Congressman from the GOP/Liberty side of things. If you can give me a call tonight for a phone interview before 10pm, I’d greatly appreciate it. Sorry for the short notice! I’m at XXX-XXXX. Thanks!
Adam Sexton
Reporter, WMUR-TV
To be honest, I knew that Frank’s office was opening, but given that I was away the entire weekend, I just couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to let TMEW know: “Oh, btw, I’ll be in Manchester tonite”. There’s times when a man has to know his [wife’s] limits, but more realistically, it was that enthusiasm gap – I just could not pump myself up to overcome the inertia to just stay home. Adam has proven himself to me to be a fair reporter so I called him up and chatted for a little while and then he recorded a couple of sound bites. Yes, the one that went over air was indicative of my current outlook. A lot of TEA Party type folks got behind him in the last cycle – and so did GraniteGrok. Expectations were high when he took office – me, the other Groksters, and a lot of those Liberty and Freedom activists that worked their butts off to the point that Frank beat Carol Shea-Porter in her hometown.
We activists promised that even if he voted “wrong” according to the Dems and the Republican Leadership, we’d have his back. Promised.
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