Monday, August 13, 2007

Meeting with Mayor Giuliani's Campaign

Giuliani Campaign Visit

We had set up a meeting for a committee of GSOP leaders and David Tille from Mayor Giuliani Staff for August 2 at 2 pm.

Attending the meeting were Tess George from Nashua, Fred Plett from Goffstown, Ruth Heden form Milford, Sarah Jane Knoy and Leticia Ortiz from Manchester , Ken Gladston from the IVP in Massachusetts and Kevin Borden from the Center for Community Change.
Sarah Jane received a call from David at about noon asking if the meeting could be rescheduled because his state director had just come to town and had scheduled another meeting for the office at 2 and he (David) would have to attend. Sarah Jane told David that it would be very difficult to reschedule as people were driving in from other parts of the state. David tried to see if his boss could attend our meeting in his place. That did not work out.

Sarah Jane suggested that David meet the GSOP group at Pappy Pizza at 1:30 as we would be there having lunch before the meeting. HE agreed. David joined us at Pappys. He apologized for the sudden change in schedule.
Leticia thanked him for joining us and kicked off the round of introductions. The groups described GSOP, described the event and answered questions David had about the event and the organization.

We told him we would like a commitment form the Mayor to attend and he promised to work on it. He thought the event would be a good venue for Mayor Giuliani as more than 1,000 voters (many of whom are undecided) will be in attendance. David said the candidates schedule is known a week or two in advance and promised to stay in touch.
We shared our appreciation for his work on the campaign as well as his work in his former position on Congressman Bradley’s staff. He apologized again for the schedule change.

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