Hopefuls: It’s Elko or bust

[ursi]

Source: Las Vegas Sun

Sat, Jan 19, 2008 (2 a.m.)

Elko — What a whirlwind Friday for Ann Wright, with history unfolding right before her: four presidential candidates visiting this mining town in the span of 24 hours. In Elko!

“These people came all this way to see us,” said Wright, a waffling Democrat who was excited by all the attention the candidates were paying her little city.

John Edwards had shown up Thursday night, but drew only about 100 people to a rowdy, century-old bar. And frankly, many of them were more interested in drinking and socializing than politics.

Friday was different. In the morning there was Republican Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, dropping by the middle school. Wright and her 16-year-old daughter joined about 300 other people to see him in the flesh.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jan/19/hopefuls-its-elko-or-bust/

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This is my old hometown and the girl is right. It has been a scary place to say you are a Democrat. I am proud of Elko that it has a huge Obama sign right in it's downtown right now. Don't want to go in to it but this is a huge step. (Hint: take a look at the demographics)

But what I really want to know is who from the John Edwards campaign scheduled his only visit there at the Star? People couldn't get in to see him. His turnout would have been much better if it was held at Elko High School.

And last, reporters may limit themselves to the demographics of the City of Elko limits. Just outside of Elko, within 20 miles are another 12-15,000 people who shop in Elko and attend events there.

[sam sarrha]

1. i was a Juvenile Parole Officer in Elko for 2 years in the 80's...

[ursi]

2. I think I know the guy who replaced you ...first name is Jeff

You had a wide area to cover!

[sam sarrha]

3. my boss was Clarence McDade, wonderful person, yea i had to drive all over, duck water, Ely, I took

the back road behind the Ruby mts, the Rubies were fascinating.. is there any snow on them now..??

i took the job to do a special project on teaching meditation at NYTC, BUT IT WORKED SO WELL THEY WOULDN'T LET ME DO IT. it made their system look really bad.

there is a video called 'Doing Time Doing Vipassina' about how many of the Indian prisons were totally reformed, the system is spreading all oner the world. most prisons here wont allow meditation to be taught, so the volunteers say they are teaching Yoga... they usually allow that


Lama Yoshi has a great prison project

[ursi]

4. Clarence McDade was a good man. One of the first I met when I moved there in 89

I live in Reno now. Worked for the Te-Moak Tribe the last two years I lived there.

I am sure there are many people still around that you know.

Peace and thank you for your work.