UPDATE: Great write up on the event from ABC 7 in Chicago. Lech joked that he won’t have to visit Gov. Andrzejewski in jail and commented on the chances of and upset victory, “Nobody gave us a chance to win over the communists. Nobody. And we proved them wrong”
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Probably will get a lot more later - but WJBC in McLean County, Illinois has posted the first publically released audio of Lech Walesa’s campaign appearance for Adam Andrzejewski. Only a 20 second clip, but a good 20 seconds.
January 29th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
Well thanks for the update, I’m starting to like the softspoken fella with the seriously midwestern accent.
January 29th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
As they say in Polish:
Bardzo dobry bardzo dobry
January 29th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Any estimates on how many showed up in support of Walesa and Andrzejewski at the tea party?
January 30th, 2010 at 12:40 am
3 – 100-200 – Primarily because it was 7 degrees outside. But it got wide coverage in the media and blogs. So it was sucessful – and the turnout was pretty good considering the weather.
January 30th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Adam,
Thank you for responding. IMO another factor could have been that it was either planned on short notice or wasn’t publicized soon enough. I could have gone had I had more notice and would have taken some of my future voters with me. I’m sure they would have loved to skip school to go to a tea party and probably would have been willing to write reports of their adventure, too. Two of my teen granddaughters (plus one’s boyfriend) met Adam at the Huckabee book signing in Naperville.