Well, here's some good news. If you haven't been able to make it to a "Kerry On Your Corner" event, you can still catch the Senator on video at the Mass Dems for Kerry blip TV site. They've captured highlights of the stops on the KOYC tour, so if you've missed one or all of the Senator's stops on his trip around the Commonwealth, or just want to hear what the people of Massachusetts are asking their junior Senator, you can find out at Mass Dems for Kerry blip TV or read about it on their blog.
Karen van Hoek captured video in Leominster on Monday of a constituent asking Senator Kerry a question that's on the minds of most folks in the Northeast as the summer winds down and thoughts turn to the prospect of huge increases in heating oil prices.
As Senator Kerry notes, he has introduced legislation (with Olympia Snowe on multiple occasions in addition to the increase in LIHEAP he proposed with Bernie Sanders and Ted Kennedy), and has also written to energy companies, and held hearings both in Washington and in Pittsfield, MA on the issue of high heating oil prices and the potential crisis this winter.
The Senator also participated in an energy summit at Bridgewater State College yesterday, where the focus was on green energy, jobs and conservation.
OK, I have to confess that although I love the Mass Dems for Kerry site, the reason I chose today to feature them is that I just bought Alexandra Kerry's book "Notes From the Trail", and I can't put it down long enough to write my own stuff. I just finished Chapter 2: Iowa, although I admit I cheated and looked through the photographs that fill the second half of the book. A far cry from your typical political retrospective, Alexandra Kerry's images, both literary and photographic, are presented with candid honesty and a vivid and strikingly personal viewpoint. Here's a short excerpt where she describes the campaign bus.
The Real Deal Express was not an idea or an image for those reporters; it was a drafty hulk of aluminum that they lived inside. Empty cold medicine packets, drained coffee cups, discarded Diet Coke cans, and endless wrappers of rapidly devoured candy bars littered the floor. Wet leaves lay buried like sediment under tracked-in road slush. I felt as if I'd stepped into the Old Testament scene in which Jonah hangs on for dear life inside the belly of the whale.
You'll have to buy the book for the rest. I'm on to Chapter 3: New Hampshire.
Comments (1)
Posted by Jeanne | August 21, 2008 11:05 PM
Best wishes to Sen John Kerry re-election campaign and more. Mass is fortunate to have such a decent and hard working Senator. They should be proud that their home state Senator was the democratic nominee for President in 2004 and realize that after the 2008 election he can help Mass even more. He has a lot of influence and is not afraid to be a leader. Practically this is a huge plus for Mass as well as great for our Country. I wish he was President but you know he still dedicated to working hard for Mass and our Country.