Driving for Pete (Part 2)

(Continued from Part 1)

After my near-miss bump into Joe Biden at The Paris, I headed back to my motel, The Downtowner, located in an old part of Las Vegas that is various stages of decay and redevelopment. I enjoyed staying in this part of the city, away from the bright lights and artificial architecture of The Strip, easy walking distance from good restaurants, many of the buildings decorated with street art murals. Walking away from town, Freemont

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Driving for Pete (Part 1)

I’m not sure how it happened, but I was given the opportunity to be a driver for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign team in Las Vegas. I had originally volunteered to canvass neighborhoods in advance of the primary caucus but received an email asking

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Canvassing for Pete

I started my volunteer work for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in Nevada on Saturday by canvassing a working-class neighborhood in East Las Vegas.  I arrived at the local campaign office on Charleston Street early Saturday morning and received a

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Why I’m Writing (Yet) Again (and Some Politics)

I’m writing for this blog again.

I hope I’ll be able to get into a habit of writing and posting regularly. I failed at my last attempt doing this and haven’t posted anything for over a year, although I did keep up pretty well with my sailing blog until I completed The Voyage last August.

Before resuming writing for this blog, I asked myself, “Why do it? Why try again? What is the purpose?”  Is it to just

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