This is the first edition of what will be a weekly calendar of appearances and events leading up to the February 12, 2008 Presidential primary. It’ll be a little sparse at first as I get ramped up, hopefully I’ll have a few things each week to add. While most of the Presidential campaigns do have at least a rudimentary calendar of events, I’ve only found Joe Arminio’s site has one at the Congressional level. (I also get Andy Harris’s e-newsletter which details some of the events he’s attending as well. Unfortunately he’s going on a Monday format so it’s a week old when I do this. Oh well.)
For this exercise, the inclusion rule will be appearances on the Lower Shore (Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, Worcester) for Congressional candidates and anywhere on the Eastern Shore or Delaware for Presidential hopefuls.
Using that rule, at this moment I have just one event within this timeframe:
Saturday, September 15: GOP Congressional candidate Andy Harris has confirmed he’ll appear at the Wicomico County Republican Club Crab Feast at Schumaker Park in Salisbury. Also expected to appear (no official word yet) is fellow Republican candidate John Leo Walter. The event begins at 1 p.m. and ticket information is here.
We all have to start somewhere. So, Bill Reddish, when you read this consider it the bat-signal to start feeding me your political morning guests when you get them – I know you have Gilchrest on about every other Thursday and I’m sure you’ll have the others sooner or later. (Wonder if I can get a searchlight to project a small “m” someplace?) And for those of you connected with the other campaigns, let me know. Hey, I’ll even put up Democrat events, just don’t expect me to show up with a check for you. There are monoblogue readers of the Democrat persuasion though who might.
So be looking for this Election Calendar on a weekly basis, generally on Sunday nights. I’ll take a break around the holidays but from here on out this should be a fixture in your reading.
By the way, I sent out the 2008 edition of the Ten Questions last night. We’ll see if anyone cares to bite first.
