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Deval Patrick Cookout in Hopkinton on Sunday

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“Please join Governor Deval Patrick for a cookout in Hopkinton on Sunday.  

Sunday, August 30 at 2 PM

Mass Laborers District Council

7 Laborers Way, Hopkinton

Suggested donation $25

RSVP: (617) 367-2010 or cookout@devalpatrick.com

We invite anyone who would like to attend, so bring your family, your friends, and your neighbors. We hope to see you there!”

It will be good for us to come together as we mourn Senator Kennedy, while carrying on the Democratic work that he advocated.  Many of us feel the need to be in the company of other Democrats.  It seems a fitting tribute to the Senator.  A year ago, on 8/25/2009, I last heard Senator Kennedy as he addressed the National Convention.

“The work begins anew. The hope rises again. And the dream lives on.”  Please join us.  

Kate Donaghue

 

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  1.  28 responses at the moment. Mihos had 83 at the Lowell Spinners game last week. And that was just a local thing. On a weeknight (Thursday).  

  2. I am out of town for family reasons.  As Senator Kennedy’s life and passing reminds us, time with family is precious and should be honored.

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    p>My own father turns 97 this week which is why I am with family in Michigan and cannot also be in Hopkinton Sunday.

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    p>About my father – he was the second oldest of seven children.  His father died at the age of 54, leaving my grandmother with seven children in 1929, the youngest of whom was one year old.

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    p>My father was the child chosen to drop out of school and help support his six brothers and sisters, which he did.  And he worked and supported his mother and brothers and sisters, some of them all the way through their PH.Ds.  He married my mother when Mom was 19, and put her through college proudly, without feeling inferior.  There is more I could say, but to sum it up, I have never seen my father break a promise, and his example continues to inspire me.  He and mother were married more than 70 years ago – today she has alzheimers and at 97, he is once again a caregiver albeit in a supportive living apartment.  

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    p>Sometimes it is hard that Massachusetts is home for my own children, and that it is so hard to be there for my Mom and Dad in Michigan – but no, I cannot be in Hopkinton this Sunday.

    • You do what you have to do. Lots of others do this too. You’re not the only one. But I do it out of love, nothing else. I don’t need or want a medal for doing what has to be done.  

  3. Good to see the gov is up to 28 whole PAID attendees.  Maybe I helped kickstart your event đŸ˜‰

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    p>Here’s my post.

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    blockquote>About a week ago I got an email from the Deval Patrick Committee letting me know about his big Grassroots campaign kickoff.  The event is now about a week away and only nine people have pre-paid to go to the event.  Here’s the email I received:

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    Friends:

    Please join us for this year’s Grassroots Cookout to celebrate the many accomplishments of this administration and to kick off our grassroots organizing for Governor Patrick’s re-election! The Governor is ready to have some fun with his wonderful supporters. There will be barbecuing, face painting, music, balloons, and more.

    We invite anyone who would like to attend, so bring your family, your friends, and your neighbors.  We hope to see you there!

       

    Date:  August 30th, at 2:00 p.m.  Location:   Mass Laborers District Council  7 Laborers Way, Hopkinton

    RSVP: (617) 367-2010 or cookout@devalpatrick.com

    Buy your tickets online at  http://www.actblue.com/page/devalpatrick-grassroots

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    p>With an email like that and the legions of on-line supporters the Governor has I would think that the pre-sales would be better than what is shown below, 8 days before the event.

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    We shouldn’t worry too much for Deval though. I’m sure David Axelrod’s firm who represents Deval and the SEIU through David Plouffe will make sure the SEIU purple shirts show up for Deval

    http://www.redmassgroup.com/di…

      • Dems talk, but can they back it up? Doubtful! Just some more democratic rhetoric. You folks talk a good game, but that’s all it is.

        • There were several dozen at last year’s picnic.  I’m sure there will more more than 28 this year.  Most people pay at the event.

          • That name address and employer is taken for these cash donations in order to make sure nobody goes over their $500 limit by attending right? đŸ˜‰

            • Any event I’ve attended has included providing that info.  I assume anyone who has maxed out is still welcome to attend for free.

        • histrionic shrieking.

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          p>Civil discourse advances society.
          Angry vitriol only spreads fear, distrust and un-happiness.

          • I’m not being vitriolic. I am simply stating fact. BMG’ers like facts. Except when they don’t like it! Anybody see last week’s Rasmussen poll? No, you wouldn’t want to. Keep those heads in the sand.

  4. BNCordeiro was able to get over 250 attendees from across the state to come to a backyard in Dartmouth last Friday evening for a BBQ.  That’s 250 people in one of the toughest parts of the state to get to. I am told that other similar events have been routinely drawing 150 + attendees on a regular basis. Just thought you’d be interested.

    • and noting the difficultly of the region to get attendees doesn’t really jibe.  Just thought you’d be interested to know.

      • It shows how excited people on our side are that they would travel to Dartmouth MA from Newburyport MA on a friday by 6pm to go to a BBQ to see our statewide candidates.  Maybe this sort of thing routinely happens on your side of the aisle.  On ours this is completely new.  I said that it was hard to get too.  Not that people didn’t make the effort.  I’ve got video up at RMG if you are interested in seeing the speeches.

        • you are mixing the difficulty or a region to get attendees (I don’t know if that’s true or not) but then you state that the attendees might not be for the region.  You are going in circles.

          • Dartmouth is not geographically easily accessible to a vast majority of the Commonwealth. IE it’s hard to get there from here. Not Central. Out of the way. You’ve got to be going there to get there, because you aren’t going to pass it. And any other euphemism I can come up with.

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            p>Despite the fact that a cookout was held at 6:00 PM on a Work Night for most of the attendees.  People from as far away as Newburyport and Springfield made the trek to the event.  I know for a FACT that people came from other regions.  I spoke with them, and know a lot of them.

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            p>Perhaps you live in Dartmouth or the South Coast and don’t consider it tough to get to.  Try getting there from anywhere north of 195 on a Friday night and you’ll see it takes forever.

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            p>I am perfectly clear in what I am saying and not causing a REF# error.  You are not listening or reading what I am saying properly.  

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