OK, so I admit it. I campaigned for Dole. Kind of embarrassing. Even had a sign in my yard. Dang he was one of the worst picks to head a ticket ever.
You know I had coffee with Bob Dole! No kidding.
I was at a pro-life fundraiser breakfast at a hotel in Seattle and candidate Bob Dole showed up to let us all know how much he opposed abortion. (Right wing nut job that he is).
I was at a front table with only one other guy eating breakfast and in comes Bob. Then he sat down at my table! He only wanted coffee. So I am staring face to face across the table with Bob Dole. I hand him some creamer.
I remember asking him something intelligent about what was going on in Congress. I’ve learned to just ask a person with power questions, then you don’t look stupid.
Went home and bragged. “I had coffee with the minority leader of the Senate today!”
That night I saw him on television.
His campaign crashed like a burning blimp.
Anybody else meet a famous politician?
I worked at the Polk County GOP HQ (Iowa) as a twenty-something in the 1980’s after I left the Army. I palled around with Robert Novak for a day, talked with Senator Dole and then Vice President Bush, worked on General Haig’s short-lived presidential campaign and met Brokaw and Rather. All that is not unusual in Des Moines. Iowa voters expect to be able to talk with candidates and ask them questions one-on-one, as do New Hampshire residents. Everyone else usually either sees them on TV or at a huge rally.