It was my first time at a meet-the-candidate event. There were maybe a hundred people there including town politicians and some press. As they entered she shook a lot of hands down one side of the room and through the first two rows, including mine. The mayor introduced her with a few words about how they believe in the same thing and the important thing is beating Scott Brown and she has the best chance at that. He's an Iraq War vet and mentioned we have to support them and she repeated that a few minutes later.
She said a few words about fighting for the middle class and investing in our future as we used to do, particularly for education. Then she took questions. One was by an activist for separated fathers and would she look into recent laws that limit their rights. She spoke about family and he repeated would she look into it and I forgot how she answered it, if she specifically used his words or not.
The next question was about how can we get anything done with such a divided Congress. She said she's run one campaign in her life and it wasn't for office, it was for a Consumer Protection Bureau and she made that happen. People told her it's a great idea but don't do it because lobbyists will fight every step of the way. She ignored that and through a lot of hard work building an organization got it done and is willing to do that again.
It's basically her standard answer for everything. I like her a lot but she really has only one item on her resume and she uses it for everything. She then shook more hands for almost a half an hour. The press was waiting around to interview her afterwards. When that happened they basically formed a scrum around her and asked a few things about Occupy Wall Street.
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