Horn for Congress Blog
Jennifer Had Huge Presence at McCain Event
Jennifer and a group of volunteers attended the McCain Town Hall in Exeter on Wednesday.
Jennifer shook the hands of every person who attended the event – nearly 400!
Jennifer had 4 volunteers blanketing the area in yard signs, stickers and brochures about her campaign. Jennifer Horn stickers were a hot commodity!
In fact, two people sitting on stage behind Senator McCain had Horn for Congress stickers on!
No other campaign can say that.
Shaking the hand of every person that walked inside!
Even the TV cameras were interested in all the buzz surrounding Jennifer!
Day 2 in Coos County!
Snowshoeing in our Sunday coats!
Saturday was an unexpected pleasure. We had planned a morning of coffee shop stops, which really are an awful lot of fun. At the last minute however, I was invited to join Scott Mason on a short snowshoe trek up the side of a mountain into a sugarbush.
This presented a number of challenges. First, I did not pack for snowshoeing. Second, it had been many years since I had snowshoed and it was one of the coldest days of the year! But Scott said Dave Fuller was a great Coos County business success story, so I had to go.
I can't imagine what we looked like, Gerry and I, snow shoeing up the side of the mountain in our Sunday coats, but it was an extraordinary experience!
The sugarbush was beautiful - all bare branches and fresh snow on the the ground. The network of piping and tubing that strung from one maple tree to the next created quite the maze for us to negotiate, but about 1500 feet up we came upon Dave Fuller, owner of Fuller's Sugar house.
He was busy tapping his trees - thousands of them - preparing for a new season of delicious New Hampshire maple syrup. Dave is a fascinating man - full of information about maple sugaring and Coos County.
And he really is a success story. His family-owned business is growing and each spring they "boil down" about 116,000 gallons of syrup! Over 80 percent of their business is through the internet - people all over the country are enjoying pure New Hampshire maple syrup!
People like Dave Fuller give me hope; a hard-working,generous guy who loves his family, his state and his country. It was a wonderful experience to see the potential of the North Country through the eyes of people who have lived and worked there for their entire lives.
I may have looked foolish climbing that mountain in jeans and my Sunday coat, but I'm so glad I accepted the invitation - I'm looking forward to getting back up there this spring to sample Dave's fresh batch of maple products!"
Not exactly snowshoeing attire!
Dave Fuller and Me
Best Wishes,
Jennifer
Day 1 in Coos County!
We had a great two days in Coos County - from a stint on WMOU in Berlin to a heart-to-heart with Gorham Town Manager Bill Jackson to a wonderful dinner meeting with the Coos County GOP - we made so many new friends I can't wait to return.
The Oil Truck
On our first day in town we finished up our interview on WMOU and had a few minutes to spare so we decided to to check in to the motel (The Town and Country in Gorham - great place to stay!). It was about a ten minute drive and my friend Gerry and I spent the whole time talking about the campaign, oblivious to the fact that we were being followed.
When we pulled into the motel parking lot, an oil delivery truck pulled up right behind us. The driver jumped out and practically accosted Gerry!
"Are you Jennifer Horn?" he asked her. She directed him to me, on the other side of the car and I asked him how he knew who we were.
"I saw the bumper sticker on your car and had to track you down," he said. "I figured you couldn't be going very far."
It turns out he was making deliveries and listening to our interview on WMOU as he drove around. Entirely by coincidence, we ended up right in front of him as we drove from Berlin to Gorham.
"I had to say hello," he told me in the parking lot. "I was listening to you on the radio and I just want you to know that I love what you had to say. Keep it up!"
He gladly accepted a couple of bumper stickers and got back to work.
Our first Coos County member of Team Horn - not bad! If you see an oil delivery truck with a Horn For Congress bumper sticker, give him a friendly honk from us!
Best Wishes,
Jennifer
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