The John Kerry Bloogers Meeting in Los Angeles

The John Kerry Bloogers Meeting in Los Angeles
June 2nd, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

Yes… there’s a typo in the title… and, no it’s not my mistake:



Yesterday, a group of Los Angeles area bloggers got together with John Kerry in Century City for an informal, off the record chat after the speech he delivered to the Pacific Council. As we made our way from the speech to the room reserved for our meeting with John Kerry we found the way paved with the sign above stating: John Kerry Bloogers Meeting. The humor of the mis-spelling was not missed by any of us and Steve Audio took a moment to pose with the sign.

Suddenly, as we were sitting at the table waiting for John Kerry to join us, he burst into the room waving the sign, laughing about the typo. “This is classic,” he told us… “I want you all to sign this and be sure to put the name of your Bloog under your name and I’m going to take this back to my office, frame it and hang it on my wall!” We all happily complied with the Senator’s request.



There’s been a few stories in the news recently about politicians and blogs, including one I posted about here, noting my experiences with the Kerry 2004 campaign blog. The informal meeting with the L.A. Bloggers was intiated by a suggestion I made to John Kerry when he was in L.A. in early April speaking on immigration reform.



I’ve had the experience to speak with John Kerry many times over the past few years, but for many of the bloggers at the table it was a first. Kerry was warm, funny, open, honest, frank and impassioned…

LOTS MORE, LINKS and MORE PHOTOS - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=3167

This was another funny moment in the day... Kerry wanted an ice cream and he couldn't find one withouts nuts...

RJ Eskow (HuffPo), Cenk Uygur (Young Turks), SteveAudio & Mrs Steve Audio (SteveAudio & HuffPo), Dante aka Hekeboles (DKos), HollywoodLiberal, Martini Republic, myself (Pamela at the Dem Daily), Gary A (DKos - can't remember his username) and Eric H (DCP)

I like to see our Dem leaders keeping bloggers up on stuff this way.

to politics and with all that has been happening since 2000, they haven't been able to play catch up and really understand half the people they've been covering.

It's very helpful for bloggers.

More here - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=3175

Does he plan to read RFK's article in Rolling Stone, or had the article even come out when you met with him?

Actually, in order to read the Rolling Stone article, he would probably have to clear it with Christopher Dodd.

Anyway, I still think Kerry has a lot on the ball and would have made an excellent prez. It's too bad he couldn't have moved into the White House after winning the election by the margin he did.

and I appreciated everyone on it very much. It was devastating, though, after
the loss not to leave it open so that we could reach some kind of resolution
through the shock and grief.