A Rockin' Saturday Night
What did you do with your Saturday night? We ate too much Mexican food and subsequently watched the complete, four-hour long Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on C-SPAN. If you missed it, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi played emcee, and halfway through the speeches from the Democratic candidates for president, Iowa US Rep Leonard Boswell displayed his startling skills as an auctioneer and auctioned off "Nancy Pelosi's scarf". The high bid was $6,000. For the Speaker's scarf.
Then, a few minutes later, Pelosi admits on stage that it was "a scarf I've never seen before". NOT COOL, Nancy.
We were fully awake for LONG speeches by Pelosi, Iowa Lt Gov Patti Judge, Edwards, Dodd, Iowa Governor Chet Culver, Richardson, the surreal scarf auction, and the loquacious US Sen. Tom Harkin, but Harkin pretty much did me in and we were only semi-awake for the speeches by Obama and Clinton.
P.S. How could I forget!?!? Before the fake-Speaker scarf went for six grand, Boswell also successfully auctioned off a stuffed donkey with all the presidential candidates' signatures on it. That went for around two grand. And I'm not sure if Mike Gravel was allowed to sign it.
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