I turned down a subbing job today to catch up on my one-man (campaign) to beat Pete Stauber’s one million dollar head start in 107 days.
These are today’s to-do lists
I have no idea how many must-be-done-yesterday tasks I’ll get to but after four hectic days I almost caught up on my sleep last night. I decided a little blogging to clear my mind would be good. Good luck reading my to-do lists. After a few days I can barely decipher them. Last night before I crashed I picked up a dozen post-it notes around my computer with miscellaneous crisis I needed or wanted to attend to and put them in my recycling so they wouldn’t attract my attention today.
I also took a picture to share with my seven loyal readers of the piles of paperwork on my floor but I’ve posted them before. Perhaps by the end of today I’ll have them in files off my carpet. That would be nice before I once again go door knocking at UMD tonight.
I have one more post to share before I start attacking my to-do list. It will be about South America’s disappearing 65-million-year old rain forest. Its sort of like the meteor we all fear will hit Earth but are too busy to notice with Ukraine the French elections and increasing gas prices to fret about…….but I do. I keep my priorities in order.
Before I get to saving the Earth I’d like to show you the email reply I sent to the following email complaint sent to me yesterday. It came from a UMD student who took umbrage to my slipping my card and a campaign letter under his dorm room door on Saturday night. My legs are still stiff as hell from all that stooping down two days later.
He wrote me:
Good day,
I have a massive “No Political Solicitation” sign on my door outside, and I was amazed to receive your flyer and business card still. Clearly you have no respect for human decency or care about people’s private spaces. For being a Republican, who are known for the advocation of privacy and of private spaces, clearly you are a disgrace to your own party, as well as to the town of Duluth. I understand there is no legal obligation to follow my sign, but if you are trying to sway voters, this is not the correct way to do it.Yours truly,
C
I replied:
C,
As I knocked on doors yesterday at UMD I avoided knocking on doors with the bright pink no political solicitation sign on them. It took me a few doors before I began recognizing them. For those doors I followed directions given me by the Housing Office and simply slipped my cards under the door so as not to disturb people.
Perhaps the housing office should amend the verbiage but it may not be possible. Minnesota guarantees political candidates the right to admittance inside appartement buildings to door knock. As it is, UMD severely limits this to the hours between 7 and 9 pm.
I did not and do not consider sliding brocheurs under a door as soliciting. We have different interpretations of the word. I think of it as engaging in salesmanship not dropping off literature which can be easily ignored or discarded.
I am sorry we disagree on this point but will note our democracy is founded on the free exchange of information.
I wish you the best and should we bump into each other on campus I would be pleased to buy you a cup of coffee to talk about the nature of the world.
Harry
