Monday, January 09, 2006

Deval Patrick on Tour

This weekend the Deval Patrick campaign made stops in Lawrence, Lowell and Groton.

The Lowell Sun covered the Deval Patrick meet & greet at the Brew'd Awakening in Lowell.

Sounds like there was a good turn-out. . There's more coverage at the Lowell Democratic City Committee blog.

I was at the Groton DTC annual dinner which, as mentioned in the Sun article, took place later that same evening. I haven't seen any newspaper coverage, so I'll just briefly sum up here:

The Groton Democratic Town Committee held its annual dinner Sunday, January 8th at the Bull Run Restraurant in Shirley. The dinner was co-sponsored this year by the Middlesex and Worcester Dems together with the town committees of Ayer, Pepperell, Shirley and Townsend. Deval Patrick was the featured keynote speaker, but we also had brief comments from various candidates for statewide office including:

LG candidates Sam Kelley, Tim Murray and Andrea Silbert.

Middlesex DA candidates Jarrett Barrios, Mike Festa and Gerry Leone.

Secretary of State candidate John Bonifaz.

The turnout of 110 people was incredible. Every candidate that I spoke to was amazed that so many people turned out on a cold, leftover snow on the ground, Sunday night. I'm glad that the candidates got to see how many dedicated activists there are out here in North Central Mass. This area has a very large percentage of unenrolled voters and they went overwhelmingly for Romney in the last election. I think now after the last four years of empty Republican promises, that we could swing the unenrolled voters by reaching out to them. The Mass Dems Victory 2006 campaign is a great way to start that outreach process.

But first... lemme get through the February 4th caucus!