TIME

"Lost time is never found again." -Benjamin Franklin


Benjamin Franklin was a master at managing time. He had his day planned out to the minute, and never wasted time (a fact that made me sick with guilt when I first read is audobiography). I don't need to tell anybody that there never seems to be enough time.

Right now the campaign is in a time crunch. The last day to file is in 11 days. The campaign has the minimum 5000 signatures, but needs to get another 1000 as a safety net within the next 11 days. When we first started gathering signatures back in August is seemed that we had all the time in the world to gather all those signatures, but each signature takes time and the deadline is approaching-fast.

While currently time equals signatures in the big picture time equals votes. Time is everything! When Dr. Thomas is given three minutes to speak everything in that speech needs to be pertinent. When there are events all over the state priorities need to be made on what events would be worth the time because if that time is wasted there are wasted opportunities and wasted votes. The campaign's advise is this- manage your time and make sure you concentrating on the things worth spending the valuable time on.

MY REASONS FOR BLOGGING: A MESSAGE FROM THE WRITER

I feel that I need to clarify my reasons for doing this blog because until I am being honest, I am a poser.

I am a college student and for my technology for professional writers class I have to keep a blog about anything, so long as the purpose of the blog is specific. After receiving the assignment it didn't take me long to decide writing about Kathleen Thomas' senate campaign would be fun. As an English major minoring in Political Science this topic was right up my alley, writing about politics. I made a call and badabing! I'm writing about this campaign (although in a way a little different than originally planned).

I decided I would write about politics without getting political, which is to say writing without a right or left leaning agenda (if you want that kind of information you can go to just about any other 'news' source to find people yelling at each other or acting like the world is coming to an end). I wanted (and still do) to blog about the inners of a campaign, a part of politics we rarely see. I have learned that the inside is kinda messy, and if you have a sick sense of humor, kinda funny. I hope to continue to blog about the messy, yet rewarding part of campaign politics along with some amusing stories.

A PICTURE IS WORTH...

Several weeks ago when I first started this blog a member of the campaign was telling me about her camera woes, explaing that she kept forgetting to bring the camera when she went to campaign events with Kathleen Thomas. Because Dr. Thomas is grassroots (and not Mark Kirk) she doesn't have a guy with a camera following her around, so if the campaign wants a picture someone needs to remember to bring the camera.

The concept of taking pictures however, did not even become an important issue until Dr. Thomas was taking a tour of a building. The person giving the tour was surprised they did not have a camera with them, remarking that candidates had been through before only for a photo op. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but in the world of politics a picture is simply posing for the constituents.