There she goes again…
One thing I learned in the campaign fore US Senate is that Linda McSteroids’ campaign will go to any lengths to control their message…and just as they attempted to do in Milford, when it comes to the size of crowds at her rallies, Linda’s camp isn’t being quite honest with the people.
On Saturday Linda’s 50 million dollar trainwreck made one of her last campaign stops in Danbury. With campaign manager David Cappiello and Lt. Gov candidate Mark Boughton both residents of Connecticut’s Hatcity, you would think there would be a good turnout for Linda’s rally at the Danbury High School right? Well, of you drank the Kool-Aid from Linda’s team, then the rally was a HUGH success.
Here’s what the McSteroids’ campaign tweeted regarding their rally at Danbury High School.
Lets take a look at the pics McSteroids’ campaign put out of the “amazing/great” rally.
Again, if you go by these images, you would think the rally was a huge hit…and why not? Announcement of the rally was posted on Linda’s Facebook page back on the 26th and two of her biggest fans (her campaign manager and the mayor of Danbury) both live a stone throw away from where the rally took place. Surely the success of this rally should be a no brainer right? (I mean come on, they even had Triple H as the “special” guest!)
WRONG.
Fresh from the Obama rally in Bridgeport, I decided to stop by the big festival and see how things were going…and lets just say that no one was really psyched to see me there. I knew once I parked my car that the rally was a complete bust.
I arrived at the “rally” around at the Danbury High School auditorium at aprox. 7:30 and the size of the crowd was almost embarrassing. Even after they sectioned off half of the gym, the size of Linda’s followers peaked at 120 people (including Linda’s staff and handlers who I recognized from the Milford rally).
By the time Linda finally showed her face (aprox 8:40), her handlers move the people into the middle in order to give the impression that the size of the crowd was large for the cameras. Heck, by the time Linda finally showed up, I saw some people actually leave…including the crew from WTNH (marked in red in the above photo).
…I’ll let the video tell the story.
As someone who attended one of Ned Lamont’s last campaign stops in Danbury back in November 2006, Linda’s people couldn’t have been happy with this turnout…hell, I had more people at my wedding. If Linda’s campaign manager and the Mark Boughton can’t draw people out to her rallying Danbury (population 75,000+), then what does that say about the enthusiasm for the McSteroids campaign?
I spoke/received emails from about 50+ people who said they were NOT attending because they were going to Halloween parties, driving their kids to Halloween parties, or it was Hell Night and they wanted to stay home to protect their homes.
Yep, it was the faithful, as she admitted herself (“I see so many familiar faces”).
The comment I heard most was, “Why wasn’t this scheduled for the afternoon?”
BTW, I saw you taking those pics……
And I have seen about 3 minutes of Family Guy—my stomach couldn’t take any more than that.
Glad to see you stuck around for the whole thing. You might’ve learned something. She was there for the party faithful. There wasn’t much of an announcement, and she sure as hell wasn’t paying union thugs $24/hr Like Obama and the CT Dems did to get a crowd in “Bpt” (That’s how they spell it down there.) or like Murphy has been advertising $20/hr to volunteer for his campaign.
And, yes, Obama musta felt right at home with all the union thugs and corrupt politicans in the house. Even Joe “The Felon” Ganim was a featured speaker, and no one minded. I guess he is hitting the ground for a comeback, too!
And, you still haven’t answered me about my assertion that “Family Guy” is PG14 – higher than the “scandalous” WWE, and it starts at 8pm, and I’m sure that is wholesome TV because it really is a “cartoon?”
A await more of your hypocrisy…
Fair point, Mr. Robinson. What about the News Times running with a story about a rally with FOURTEEN people?
Seriously?
The Dungeons and Dragons club drew a bigger crowd than that when I was in high school 25 years ago, and it sure as hell didn’t warrant press coverage.