Tuesday, July 27, 2004
BUSH'S WAR ROOM FACING PROBLEMS IN BOSTON
By Tweed
President Bush's Boston "war room" in Boston, set up to be closer to the Democratic Convention is having problems.
"We've been having problems getting office space," said Arch Stanton, head of Bush's efforts in Boston, "so we're working out of an office the Dole campaign was still leasing; but we lose power all the time, the phones don't work, we have rats and we think the building may be condemned."
Stanton said that the problems with the building were nothing compared with the problems campaign workers were having on the streets. "It's like a war zone out there - not that any of us have ever actually been in a war zone, but from movies and things, you get a pretty good idea. I saw Saving Private Ryan twice. The people here don't seem to like us."
War room workers have taken to wearing disguises, some better than others, when leaving the office. "I know how much they like their baseball here, so I wear my Bill Buckner uniform and mask whenever I can," said one worker with noticeable bruises on his face, "but it doesn't work too well." Other disguises have proven to be just as ineffective to shield the workers from angry New Englanders. Arch Stanton's cowboy disguise got him nowhere.
"We just can't seem to move in this city without being noticed as Bush supporters," said one worker wearing twelve Bush-Cheney pins, "its like they can read our minds."
Bush War Room Workers Attempt to Blend Into the Crowd in
Boston's Back Bay Neighborhood
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By Tweed
President Bush's Boston "war room" in Boston, set up to be closer to the Democratic Convention is having problems.
"We've been having problems getting office space," said Arch Stanton, head of Bush's efforts in Boston, "so we're working out of an office the Dole campaign was still leasing; but we lose power all the time, the phones don't work, we have rats and we think the building may be condemned."
Stanton said that the problems with the building were nothing compared with the problems campaign workers were having on the streets. "It's like a war zone out there - not that any of us have ever actually been in a war zone, but from movies and things, you get a pretty good idea. I saw Saving Private Ryan twice. The people here don't seem to like us."
War room workers have taken to wearing disguises, some better than others, when leaving the office. "I know how much they like their baseball here, so I wear my Bill Buckner uniform and mask whenever I can," said one worker with noticeable bruises on his face, "but it doesn't work too well." Other disguises have proven to be just as ineffective to shield the workers from angry New Englanders. Arch Stanton's cowboy disguise got him nowhere.
"We just can't seem to move in this city without being noticed as Bush supporters," said one worker wearing twelve Bush-Cheney pins, "its like they can read our minds."
Bush War Room Workers Attempt to Blend Into the Crowd in
Boston's Back Bay Neighborhood
