The glamorous life of a Senate candidate
Ah, a statewide political campaign - how glamorous, right?
Sort of.
Tuesday night Chapel Hill investment advisor and U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal visited local precinct meetings and other small gatherings in Davidson, Charlotte and the area. At these sorts of gatherings, a legit statewide candidate is a rock star of sorts. Everyone's happy to have the attention, wants to shake a hand, etc...
But there's the less glamorous, less public part of the day. Aside from doing media interviews with one of us scruffy media types (not me) this morning, Neal has spent a good deal of his day on the phone, chatting up donors. In this picture, he's working on a blog post, editing the rough draft a staff member sent along.
On the road, coffee shops (and anywhere else with free wireless access) become temporary offices. This one happens to be a Panera bread north of Charlotte.
By the way, that headset is attached to a fantastically dinged-up Blackberry, taped at the corners and scratched to high heaven.
This afternoon, he's is off to more interviews and more donor calls before doing some "meet-and-greets."
Neal's blog is here, although the post he was working on above isn't up as of this post.