December 2011
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November 2011
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WatchThe Facts On Big Money Campaign Contributions: Addressing concerns of the Occupy Wall Street movement
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I'm Back, and now a rant about oil
I find myself wanting to rant more and more about everything and Twitter sometimes just doesn’t cut it. So I’m (once again) going to make an effort to blog a little more.
Something that irked me a few days ago was the announcement by the Obama Administration to delay approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline until 2013 (after the 2012 election). Being in the business it is easy to see why...
April 2011
6 posts
Trains and America
I’ve heard so many people talk about how great more trains in America would be. By this, they mean more trains like Europe. A good example is the Eurostar which I’ve used. It connects Paris, Brussels, and London all by high speed rail. I went from Brussels to London in 2hrs. It was great, cost $60, and I slept the entire trip. The drive would be close to 5 hours, maybe a little less...
Founders
The other day while I was driving I heard some guy referencing our founders and how colonist all carried guns, and ammunition, and blah and blah and blah. Why is everyone so concerned with our founding fathers and what they did on a day to day basis and how they would view today’s government? Are we so incompetent and uneducated to formulate our own ideas and views of government based on our...
2011 - The Year I Start Running Again
This was one of my New Year’s promises, because 2010 was the year I stopped running due to long work hours and shitty 45 min commute to work that normally ended with me having no desire to workout once I got home.
So 2011 is going to be the year I start running again, well that plan went on hiatus in February when I sprained my ankle badly playing indoor soccer. I then tried to stayed off...
March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
3 posts
Jobs and Baby Boomers
A few months ago I was unemployed and searching for work. Naturally I hopped on a handful of job search sites such as Monster and Career Builder and found a handful of job openings in the field of my choice. Now while I’ve been in and out of campaign and gov’t jobs since graduating in 2007, they all contained similar job experience, needed skills, etc. And they all...
Settling America
Just a thought here. Christopher Columbus discovered “America” down in the Caribbean. St. Augustine Florida is oldest settlement in America that has been continuously occupied. However, America will find it’s largest cities further north around New York and the New England area. I know the south, such as Florida, was claimed by the Spanish and the New England area by the British...
“When we were formed on an atomic level, all these little tiny cells come...”
– Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
October 2010
2 posts
Bees
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to all the bees that were missing a couple of summers ago, or find them?
September 2010
3 posts
My Arbys free lunch scheme
The Arby’s down the street from our campaign office has a survey on the back of their receipts. If, within 2 days of your purchase, hop online and fill out the survey (which takes probably 2 minutes to do) they give you a code to write on your receipt. Returning the receipt with the code on it to your participating Arbys results in a free Beef ‘n Cheddar sandwich. Do you know what you...
August 2010
3 posts
Ride please
After hanging out on one of our couches all day Sunday watching movies and laying around. Drew Gamble finally decided to ask if someone would give him a ride home at 7:45pm. Glad he spoke up before we went to bed.
July 2010
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“The United States has helped Europe to win the First and Second World Wars. It...”
– Nobel Laureate Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
June 2010
3 posts
Man I forgot how much of a jam this Rilo Kiley...
NASA
What happened?
1957- The Ruskis launch Sputnik up into space and America says “Shit.”
1958- America says, “We can do that too.” Explorer Launched and NASA created
1961- Alan Shepard is first American in Space and JFK decides America should rule the moon
1962-1969- NASA launched a bunch of shit and people into space and did some tests. Americans even orbited the moon but said, “We’re only here...
Gum
I’m just saying, all the technology in the world these days with 3-D Television, vacuum cleaners with roller balls and not wheels, gps navigation systems, zero calorie coke, and chat roulette that someone would have figured out how to make gum not lose its taste. Can we get someone on that?
May 2010
3 posts
Music and Life
Sometimes when I hear a song or album that I really like I will listen to it over and over again. It’s just what I do, and if it is a good enough song, I probably will not get tired of it, which is probably why “Forever” by Chris Brown is still my ringtone. Anyway, when ever I do this it does eventually come to an end and I move on to other music, songs, albums, or whatever. But...
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Winning feels good
So if you have not heard we, Todd Rokita for Congress, won last night, and we won handily. With 13 candidates in the race I knew the vote would be spread out, but I also knew that we were running the best Congressional campaign out there. We had a great, positive, message on TV, we had some great volunteers who were making tons of calls, and we were driving all over the district.
Now at the end...
April 2010
4 posts
5 Days left
5 days left until this primary is over and it seems to be going a lot better than the last race. For one, we are the front runner and not trying to pull off an impressive upset. Not that the IL primary race was a bad experience, it was probably the best career move I could have ever made. It gave me tons of experience and showed everyone that I can hold my own in the political world. I mean a week...
The "Bro" pit stop.
Last night after a surprisingly great time at the Lafayette Women’s Republican Club Bowling night, some friends and I were on our way back to Indianapolis. We were cruising down I-65 jamming to “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman when Drew proclaimed “Can we stop at the BP at the Frankfort exit, I have to pee.”
I promptly replied “No, we passed that exit like 15...
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Clockwork - Office Musik...
March 2010
3 posts
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Everything Is Free
I started ranting about this to myself one night when I was driving late and trying o stay awake. Yes, in order to stay awake I hosted my own, in car, radio show. Anyway my rant contained lots of things, but one point in particular I want to hit on is the fact that our businesses are not adapting to a changing economic environment. I’m not talking about the current recession, but more along...
Whoa, blogging again
I find myself thinking up more and more random thoughts that cannot be contained by twitter, so I figure I can put some of these thoughts up on the interwebs. Also, I figure the world should know what I’m up to a little bit more, because, well I’m kind of awesome….
February 2010
1 post
I'm back
The night before the election I’ve managed to find some time to post something. Tomorrow is the Illinois primary election and it really is a complete mystery how well we will do, or won’t do. We have built a massive grassroots organization, but really have no idea how well we can track it. We have individuals and groups all over Illinois making phone calls for us, and we have people in...
December 2009
1 post
In D.C.
I’ll post a long update later, but I’m in Washington D.C. right now for some campaign meetings. Things are going really well, but I thought I’d post this one thing. I was looking at myself in the mirror of my hotel room with a window looking out over D.C, doing a job I love, and I can’t help but think of one thing. “Thanks Mom and Dad.”
November 2009
9 posts
More thoughts
And another thing. Men should not be allowed to use emoticons or any form of a punctual smiley face. There is nothing manly about expression your emotions through smiley, sad, or winking faces made up of colons, semi-colons, and parenthesis.
No excuse
Under no circumstances is it acceptable to wear a short sleeved button up shirt with a tie. Just felt like someone needed to say that.
Red Robin
Well I told Regis I’d blog about Red Robin so here is me delivering on my promise. The other night I was invited to dinner with Regis and the roommates at Red Robin. Well it was my first time ever at Red Robin, which should make this occasion bittersweet for Dr. Watson who is a big fan of Red Robin.
I was a little late in getting to dinner because I’ve yet to learn the lesson of...
Sunday
Jim and I had a weekend with the girls and Jimbo (the name I’ve decided to start calling Jimmy as of right now) because Regis was in “the city” for a girls weekend. Saturday consisted of work all morning and then lots of running around with 40lbs girls on my back all afternoon. We had a nice evening of healthy food at Buffalo Wild Wings and mini basketball shooting games. Okay, I...
Suburbia
I had a brief texting convo with my sister this evening. It went something along these lines:
“I have premier tickets to 2012, I wish you weren’t in the Ville so you could go with me.”
“Its called Suburbia”
“Jim calls it the Ville in his blog”
“I call it Suburbia in my blog….We have a milkman”
Typically Saturday
The last time I got up at 7am for pleasure was probably because Power Rangers were on. But this Saturday I got up at 7am to go to Jimmy’s football game. Yes I went to bed at 3am, but got up at 7am in order to cheer on my roommate. However, he didn’t play. From what I could tell, he was not feeling too well. The morning was not lost though, Jim, Annie, Maggie, and I went to Dunkin...
Dinner and Roommates
The other night while we all enjoyed a delicious meat loaf, Regis continued to comment that she overcooked it. There was actually nothing wrong with the meatloaf except for the fact that the majority of it was still on my plate and not in my stomach at that point. I later commented that it was very nice to have a meal that required a “cooking” time in the oven longer then 15min, I mean...
The New Job
I know I promised to put a post up sooner, but I wanted to get a few days under the belt before I posted about the job. My first day went really well and I was really pleased with the office space that I will be working out of for the next three months (at least). I have my own desk and office inside our office, so that is nice. I’m still coming to terms with being the campaign manager...
I've Arrived
I’m in Chicago…. well technically Naperville. Chicago is “the city” and I really have not had a reason to go into “the city.” Okay, I think you’ve got it so I”ll stop putting the quotation marks. Anyway, I got into Naperville around 4:30pm Central Standard time. So with the time change and the end of daylight savings, I was 2 hours behind schedule,...
October 2009
4 posts
The Blanket Fort
I was thinking today after re-designing my blog (you can tell lots of work is getting done in my final days here at IDEM) that in a few days the majority of my roommates will probably not mind it if I built a blanket fort in living room. Now that is assuming the Watson household runs on a pure democracy, but I have a feeling it probably does not. I’m just saying though, Jimmy, Maggie, and...
Lots To Do
I really didn’t realize how quickly the last two weeks in Indy would go, but it is already Thursday morning and one week is nearly done. I’ve set up doctor appointments, lunches with friends, and meetings with some seasoned political minds to pick their brains some all before I leave next Sunday.
I really need to get some work done with cleaning my room and making sure I’ve got...
Adam's Wedding
Okay, so maybe this post should have gone before the new job post, but don’t judge me for it. Last week was Adam’s wedding and I was lucky enough to spend an entire week up there before the wedding to help out and hang out. I figured I should be a good best man and help out as much as I could while I was up there too. So I will give a quick run down of my days up there.
Saturday- As...