So, yesterday I read in the Lexington Herald Leader that John Edwards will be coming to Louisville on September 16. Great, I think, I really want to hear him speak. The article says he will probably attend a fundraiser and speak at a public event. Today I get an email from my S.O. asking if I had heard any more about the event since I had emailed him about it yesterday. Directly above his email in my inbox reads the subject line "John Edwards in Lexington". I immediately click it open, quite hopeful, and find out it is from local bookstore chain Joseph Beth announcing the appearance of John Edward, of Crossing Over fame. They got me good. I didn't even glance at the sender of the message.
So I proceed to find out some more information on this visit from our illustrious Veep candidate. I am amazed at the total lack of information on this subject. I find an article in the Louisville Courier-Journal that says basically the same thing as the one in the HL, but has the addition that "his itinerary hasn't been completed". Perhaps that is why there is nothing to be found. I go to johnkerry.com, and all I find is house parties and the like in the Louisville zip code, which is all I ever find in the Cincy and Lex zip codes as well. Even when I know they're going to be in Cincy, nothing is listed on their site until after it has happened. I am a strong supporter of Kerry/Edwards, but my big annoyance with their campaign is that I cannot find out when and where they will be speaking. I know Kentucky is not a battleground state, and I don't expect them to make many appearances here. But I do know that Ohio is one, and I am willing to travel to the Cincy and Dayton area to hear these men speak. I have friends in Cincy and family in Dayton, but really, they're mere day trips from here. I've also checked every politiblog I can think of to see if anyone out there cares, and it seems no one does.
Am I just missing something? Not looking in the right place? Is a week before the appearance too early to be investigating? I would love to attend whatever public event John Edwards might be attending, but as a working woman with an 8-5 (at least) job, this is going to require some time off since the event is 70 miles away. So, my question to the grand universe is: "Does anyone have any information on this event?" Any tidbit would be most appreciated.
UPDATE: Finally, I've figured out how to see what events are coming up instead of just seeing what's been done on the Kerry/Edwards site. If you click the "On the Road" link on the front page showing where they've been, it will take you to more details of that, but it will also show you where they are going under the tickets section. Louisville is still not up, but at least now I know where to look.
2 comments:
Brandi,
You should check and see if there's any sort of KY for Kerry or Lexington for Kerry Yahoo groups. I'm on a couple of Ohio-based ones, and lots of the info about local events comes across on those.
If you sign up to volunteer and/or give money to the campaign, you'll start getting e-mails directly from the campaign about upcoming events. I've been getting both the automated ones from the national campaign and more local-specific ones from the Kerry campaign in Columbus.
It does seem like a lot of the details about events, even in Ohio, has been hard to come by at times. I'm lucky in that I work for a union, so I can usually find out about stuff at work if the info isn't readily available on the 'net
Thanks for the tips, I'll have to look into those. I've signed up for email updates from the campaign, but nothing is local. Guess I have to pony up some money and time to get in on the local stuff. As of today Edwards is going to be in Portsmouth, OH the same day as the supposed Louisville appearance. We shall see.
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