| The Summit yesterday was very nice-- not sure how many people we had, but most of GMD's front page crowd was there, including Odum, JD, Jack, myself, Sue, Maggie, Caomhin and BP. Mr. Baruth was there to host everything. I brought my banjo and played a bit, and had a lot of nice conversations with people, some of whom I'd met before and some of whom I hadn't. Steve Benen was there, and was polite enough to let me rant on about things for about two minutes as if he knew what I was talking about before I asked him if he had any idea who I was, which was very cute and kind of funny.
Among the candidates for the Governor's race, Racine, Shumlin and Bartlett showed. Dunne had told me the day before he wouldn't be able to make it since he was at Solar Fest after doing a charity run in the morning, and Markowitz just didn't show (Publisher's note: Apparently, the Markowitz Communications Director was there, but I had no idea either. Er... next time, make sure some of the folks on the masthead know yer there if yer hoping to get acknowledged, eh?).
Steve Howard, Doug Hoffer, Jim Condos were there. Dunne had two of his staffers attend and they were a lot of fun to chat with.
Mostly, though, I wanted to make this a post summit open thread. Other GMD folks should feel free to edit this to include their own comments and/or photos. I know there's a group shot of GMD out there somewhere, and if anyone wants to move the two candidate photos above beneath the fold and put the candidate photos up instead, that would be totally cool. |
