This is "Major Danby" -- I'm tempted to quote Holy Grail and say "some know me as ... Tim," but it's actually "Greg" -- Campaign Manager for Ron Shepston (aka "CanYouBeAngryAndStillDream"), longtime Koster and candidate for Congress in CA-42 against the ethically challenged Rep. Gary Miller, sending out greetings to our friends in Chicagoland.
As I posted in a diary a couple of days back (but am reposting here in hopes of reaching a different slice of the site), several of us from the campaign -- Ron and his wife Belinda, me, and hekebolos -- are going to be in Chicago this next week for some official meetings and some fundraising. We would also just enjoy meeting our friends from the netroots. Details below.
We're going to be coming to the fortnightly Thursday night out drinking with the campaign of Dan Seals in IL-10. We're going to meet Elise there too (for me and Ron, this will be for the first time, amazingly) and hope to meet others of you as well. If you live anywhere on the North Side or close enough to visit, please watch this space (or write me at greg at ronshepston period com) for details (which have been promised me!) about where the event will occur; we know that the time is 8:00, though we may be a little later than that.
Yes, we would love for you to click over to our ActBlue page and give us some turkee, but it's not a prerequisite. Come out and ask Ron a few questions first and see what a netroots live candidate sounds like.
If you want to know what Ron looks like so that you'll recognize him at the event, here's a photo of him from Yearly Kos 2.0 (image used by permission):
And here's what I look like, but I hope to look a little less like hell on Thursday (image from public domain):
See y'all there! Comment to express your interest and your plans!