No Political Campaigning
(cont'd)
"I
heard from Abe that you'd been to his house campaigning!" He looked at her
as if this fact alone should be enough to knock some sense into her head. She
smiled at him and carried out another of her decisions from that morning. She
carried on as if he had not said a word and as if she had not heard one either.
Her dress flipped as she walked away and down another front lawn sidewalk. When
she was done that door he caught up with her again, driving along beside her in
his pick-up.
"Get in the truck!" he hissed.
She ignored him and disappeared along another person's sidewalk.
"Honey, what's wrong?" he
intoned when she finally left that place, one that had shown much interest and
signed a name at the end.
"Oh, all right," she said when
he asked more kindly this time. "Take me to the car on fourteenth." He did that.
In the next days she covered the entire
town even though she was not an official candidate. That fall her name was on
no ballot but by the following year she had been approached by the incumbent
and gone to work for him in his office. By the next election four years later
she herself Liberal party's representative of the district around Mather, MB
and sat in the legislature.
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