Does anybody know where Kerry was yesterday and today?

Mass

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:02 PM
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Does anybody know where Kerry was yesterday and today?

He did not take part to any votes in the Senate.

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JI7

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:05 PM
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1. i'm wondering about that also

i was watching to see him on the Senate floor but never saw him .

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karynnj

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:26 PM
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2. wondered the same thing

On the other thread (kerry love ...) it mentioned he was in Nantucket on Sunday.

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saracat

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:26 PM
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3. And certain people are trying to make something out of it!

Every opportunity is taken.Grrr.

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Mass

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:29 PM
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4. Somebody was speaking about base closing hearings

Edited on Tue Jun-21-05 06:50 PM by Mass

but I thought Otis was on July 6th, so I am not sure.

Anyway, there are enough problems in MA to keep him busy, but you are right, some people are using his absence on the Bolton vote to make an issue, even if he did not need to be there to vote NO.

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JohnKleeb

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:29 PM
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5. so the cannibalism is on Kerry now huh

Lovely.

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Mass

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:31 PM
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6. No, still pretty much on Durbin at this point

his speech is on dembloggers.com if you have not heard him yet.

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Pirate Smile

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:40 PM
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7. I saw your thread and that was a good try but when people just want

to bitch and moan, there is no stopping them.

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whometense

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:50 PM
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8. I saw something on one of the blogs

about how the senators who missed the vote yesterday were involved in some business about the base closings. I assume that's where Kerry was too.

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Mass

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:51 PM
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9. That is what I thought too

but I cannot find any references.

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kerrygoddess

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Tue Jun-21-05 06:59 PM
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10. Not sure...

There was a press release earlier and I heard we are still waiting on one sig. There were a few meeting today that he might have been at?

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LittleClarkie

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Tue Jun-21-05 07:51 PM
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14. What's he trying to do, get ALL the Dem Senators to sign?

It would be nice if even some Repubs did as well, wouldn't it.

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kerrygoddess

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Tue Jun-21-05 11:45 PM
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17. Wish I knew

I would hope he asked them all and some repubs too!

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Mass

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Tue Jun-21-05 07:01 PM
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11. Just wondering as he skipped one vote for a bill he co-sponsored

It was strange.

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TayTay

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Tue Jun-21-05 07:30 PM
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12. I was wondering too

I keep C-Span2 on sometimes whilst I engage in routine things. Didn't see him today. He rarely misses votes and, to my meager knowledge, rarely misses those Tuesday Dem caucuses either.

I figured that's gotta be some speech. (Or Press conference or both or whatever it's going to be.) He's been giving it his full attention for days. I'm starting to get antsy. I think he was on the islands this weekend and then maybe just decided to hunker down and get it done.

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kerrygoddess

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Tue Jun-21-05 07:35 PM
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13. I tried to weasel more

with no luck. Intelligence Committee meets the next 2 days behind closed doors.

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TayTay

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Tue Jun-21-05 07:58 PM
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15. Interesting. I hate it when they do that

But there are a certain amount of things that have to be done without the public looking in. (Sigh!) I wonder what kind of info is being passed to the Intel committee on Iraq and the state of the insurgency.

Good luck to everyone (staff) working to make this action on Sen. Kerry's part come off. I'm sure that there are folks working some late hours. And thanks for the heads up and the attempt to get a little more info JG. 'twas nice of you.

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kerrygoddess

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Tue Jun-21-05 11:44 PM
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16. Well heck...

I'm just as curious as everyone else. The word yesterday was today. So now we're waiting on a new sig. I think my hunch in the other thread is correct.

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Klimmer

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:04 AM
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18. Ah ha! So when you say "very soon" you mean the next day.

Just trying to break through your code. :think:

LOL

Hey, KG thanks for staying on top of it.

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kerrygoddess

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:33 AM
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19. Ah ha!

Well I did. But... Gosh darn it all! Some silly Senator decided to sign it and evidently through off the timing...

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karynnj

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Wed Jun-22-05 10:20 AM
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20. Kerry voted

So he's back today

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 10:22 AM
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21. Thanks, Karyn.

Nervous wreck that I am, I was starting to worry. As if I didn't have enough worry material without taking on John's welfare. :blush:

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TayTay

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Wed Jun-22-05 10:41 AM
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22. Relax, it's all good

Take it easy. It will all work out. Everything that is happening is gravy. Just take a deep breath and let it out slowly. It will all work out. Have faith.

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 10:48 AM
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23. You realize, don't you, that you're saying this

to a woman whose youngest son is at this very moment flying to Memphis on the first leg of his great cross-country adventure.

RELAX???????? :wow: All my "mommy" sensors are at full alert. Don't worry, though, I'm laughing at myself too.

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TayTay

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Wed Jun-22-05 11:07 AM
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24. My sister, all alone

drove from Boulder, CO to LA then to Miami, Fla in Dec 2003. (At least her SUV was relatively new.) She was driving through Louisiana and called me on her cell phone at work to triangulate where the hell she was and tell her how far to drive to get to the next highway. (She takes off without maps all the time.) She drove through snow storms and rain storms and such. All alone.

No problem. At one time, she was worried about driving across the South with MA plates. (Which is probably a dumb worry.) No problem. No maps, a vague idea of where the hell she was going and some gas money. It was all good.

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 11:19 AM
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25. I'm a wreck,

Edited on Wed Jun-22-05 11:26 AM by whometense

but he's a smart kid and very mature, and I recognize his absolute need to do this. I'm sure he'll have a wonderful time, and he has a cell phone which he has promised to use nightly to call home. All I need to do is figure out how to turn down the volume on the mommy sensors. :D (see? laughing.)

I had a few adventures like that myself - including a fascinating summer in Salt Lake City from which I learned an enormous amount. So most of me thinks it's great that he's doing it.

No maps, huh??

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TayTay

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Wed Jun-22-05 11:36 AM
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26. No, no maps

She figured that she could always use her cell phone to call me. So, one morning I'm at work and she calls me on the cell.

Hi, says I, in my best cheery voice
I'm kinda lost somewhere in Louisiana and there's a angry looking thunderstorm coming in, says she.
"Really, what do you want me to do about it?"
"Can you hop on the NOAA site and get me a weather forecast for Louisiana?"
"Sure, but it's a big state. Where are you?"
"Ahm, not sure. Stay on the line with me and I'll eventually pass an exit sign, I hope."

Sigh! You should have seen the trip we took together to LA, now that was interesting. No maps, cuz maps are for wussies. I am positively anal retentive (AR) about maps. When I went to LA with my husband and kids in 2003 I actually had a copy of the Thomas Street Guide and had mapped out every possible route we could take anywhere in LA. We never got lost even once. That's extremely AR. But my sister believes maps are an evil plot from hell sent to repress her inner rebel. Then there was that weird trip we took to DC back in 1993. Another mapless endurance test between Ms. Rational and Ms. Wonkiberry-Heights. (And then it got seriously weird.)

Ahm, I have nearly memorized the street maps for Edinburgh and Glasgow for my upcoming trip. It's what I do. (AR.)

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 11:43 AM
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27. hahahahaha

It would have been fun to be a fly on the wall and watch you two navigate. Talk about stormy.

I'm somewhere in the middle. I like having a map with me, but also have an appreciation of a romantic semi-lost ramble through an unfamiliar place.

We're talking about a fall trip to Europe (my two older children have been there twice each, and I've never been.) I'm for the British Isles - I've always wanted to see Wales (love the no-vowel language). I like seeing places that are off the beaten track. My favorite vacation to date was a trip to Newfoundland.

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ginnyinWI

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Wed Jun-22-05 01:59 PM
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28. how old is he?

Sorry I forgot. My husband and I took off in an old mail truck at age 19, but we were together so were able to pool our brainpower. No problems other than mechanical breakdowns at regular intervals! But then that was back in the early 70s. Was the world safer then, or is it only a matter of perception and selective memory?

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:23 PM
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29. He's 19.

Old enough, but not old enough so as not to worry. He's traveling with a friend who's one year younger.

I don't know if it was safer then - seems so to me, but he's always out and about all over the city at all times of the night and has never had problems, so he's either pretty street-smart or lucky. Probably a combination of both.

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TayTay

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:27 PM
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30. The worry beads are in the mail dear

I understand what you are going through. When my teeny weeny little daughter (5' 2", 102 pds) left for NYC last year to go to college I went a little nutty. I made a deal with her: you don't tell me what you do at college, particularly late at night in NYC, and I won't ask.

So far, it's been a good deal. But I still worry.

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whometense

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Wed Jun-22-05 02:48 PM
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31. Comes with the territory, doesn't it?

I had a hard time when my 22-year-old son moved there, so I can only imagine...

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whometense

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Thu Jun-23-05 12:09 AM
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32. Real life intrudes on politics?

Edited on Thu Jun-23-05 12:10 AM by whometense

Consider the source, but at least it's info (though a bit of a teaser...)

http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=91183

Kerry blts D.C. and misses Bolton vote
By Noelle Straub
Thursday, June 23, 2005 - Updated: 12:21 AM EST

WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry has been an outspoken critic of John Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but the senator skipped a roll-call vote on the appointment Monday as he took a two-day leave from his Washington duties.

Kerry missed four roll-call votes altogether on Monday and Tuesday, including one on an energy amendment he co-sponsored.

Kerry spokesman David Wade refused to divulge where the Bay State senator had been, characterizing his absence only as a ``longstanding commitment which could not be rescheduled.'' Monday evening, Kerry skipped the vote that Republican leaders had scheduled to end debate on the Bolton nomination.

``While we hate to miss any vote, the fact remains that (Kerry's) vote would not have been decisive in any outcome,'' Wade said. ``The fight against the Bolton nomination continues, and John Kerry will continue to speak out.''

On Tuesday, the Bay State senator missed a roll-call vote on an amendment he co-sponsored that would have stripped a provision from the energy bill allowing an inventory of all offshore oil and natural gas resources. The Senate rejected the measure, but Kerry's vote would not have changed the outcome.

The senator missed votes on two other energy amendments, on promoting technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reducing emissions on from diesel engines. The senator's aides said he has cast 97 percent of votes this Congress.

Kerry's office on Tuesday also released a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about equipment shortages in Iraq. A note from the press office called it a letter ``Kerry sent to Rumsfeld today,'' although the senator was not in Washington at the time.

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TayTay

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Thu Jun-23-05 07:27 AM
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33. It is unlike Sen. Kerry to miss votes

He might have had committments, but I think somethings up. Maybe KG knows more.

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