It turned out to be a beautiful day in Crisfield. Even though it’s almost 8:30 at night as I write this, I’m still stuffed from all of the good food (especially the pulled pork and a few clams here and there) that I ate this afternoon. Wash it down with a responsible number of beers, add some chit-chat with local politicians (and others) looking for a fun afternoon in which they can spend their money, and you have what he had today.
I took this picture a little before peak time. More people were out enjoying the sunshine as the day wore on.
We started with a presentation of the colors and Pledge of Allegiance. Since I’ve never attended a Democrat fundraiser, I wonder if they even bother to do stuff like that?
Besides the food and fellowship, this event raises money for the Elmore campaign coffers. So it wasn’t just the ticket price, you also had the auction that raised a nice tidy sum and the 50/50 drawings getting placed in the till. And that’s no problem with me. I may not agree with Page on every issue, but on balance he does a good job for District 38A.
Page made some remarks as part of the program, but pretty much shied away from politics. Most of the political banter was simply introducing some of the elected officials there. But there was one elected official there who was campaigning.
State Senator (and Congressional hopeful) Andy Harris was working the crowd and getting to know the southern part of his prospective district a little better. He seemed to get a pretty good reaction from what I could tell. I think he’ll be a frequent presence in the area over the next few months.
But for the most part today, political campaigning was out and eating lots of seafood plus enjoying the company of a lot of interesting people was in. Maybe this wasn’t the most newsworthy event, but I enjoyed myself and thought of it as a good warmup to next month’s Tawes affair (for which I have tickets available – yet another shameless plug.) Just a nice way to spend an afternoon in Crisfield. I even took the scenic route on the way back and played some tunes loudly.
Back to the harder stuff tomorrow.
