My Night with Barry Obama and Dirty Harry (May 26, 2009)

For all those who don't know, I'm a registered Democrat (mostly because Scoonie chose to be Republican when we signed up at the DMV - this way we get to hear both sides). Anyway, a lawyer who works in my office is a Democrat activist. He offered to help me with a certain legal issue and, because of that, I offered to help out with some Democrat volunteer work. For instance, I walked for Andy Hafen a couple of weeks in a row. Andy was running for mayor of Henderson. Turns out, I am most-likely related to Andy as he has some St. George Hafen roots. Andy won by 45 votes by the way and I'm pretty sure it was because of all the walking I did, but I digress (oh, and you might see me in a florescent yellow Andy Hafen T-shirt and hat one of these days, so now you won't have to ask me where I got it).

Because of the work I did for Andy, I was able to be a volunteer for the Obama fundraiser for Harry Reid. I didn't have to do too much, basically crowd control, but I did get to see Obama and Reid close up.

Now before you go call the Republican missionaries, I'm not a totally lost soul, after all, I did vote for Bush twice...and yes, I know, I'm going to H. E. double hockey sticks for being a Democrat volunteer, but whatever your political allegience, you've got to admit that just to see the President of the U.S. this close (whatever political party he/she belongs to) is pretty cool. So enough with the blabber, here's my proof-



And not only did I see Barry and Harry, but I got to see these folks too:

Rita Rudner
Cheryl Crow
Bette Midler
Don King
Tom Collins (Clark County Commissioner)
Steven Horsford (Nevada Senate Majority Leader)
Dina Titus (US Representative)
Shelley Berkley (US Representative)
Dean Heller (US Representative)