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

One of my favorite moments of the day - JK couldn't find one with out nuts - we almost had an ice cream...

Boy some way somehow, one of these days I want in on one of those private meetings.

Well KG, isn't it amazing how people change their feelings about Kerry once they meet him. We need to clone him so more can meet the real deal. :pals:

:shrug:

It was hysterical though.

Everyone looks so relaxed and into the conversation.

love the BLOOGER story and the fact that Kerry let everyone join in on the fun. What a guy.

You know, when I first started studying JK really hard after the election (I mostly just studied the issues during the campaign), I just had this feeling that the man the media described was just not accurate or truthful. With stories like this, it continues to confirm my gut feeling after watching his concession speech and see him return to the Senate 2 weeks after his loss (the two events that turned me into a devoted supporter).