First Day of Campaigning

I dropped Stockton off at school early so he could get his signs and shirts handed out to the people who agreed to wear them. Stockton said everything went really well today. People really loved his signs and his campaign. I was a nervous wreck today. Stockton had a $150 budget. We needed six signs for the posters. They were $13 each, $20 to get them laminated. That would have taken most of his budget. Mike decided against lamination while we were at the dive meet. We were thinking we needed the lamination to help the posters stand up. Mike got a foam poster board that Stockton rubber cemented the signs to. It worked great. What we didn't think about was how the lamination would help in the rain. Around 10:00 it started raining really bad. Pouring hard. I was so worried that someone who was holding his sign would have seminary and the signs would be all the way ruined. Turns out, Ryuhei had seminary. He broke one of the handles running and trying not to ruin the sign. That's okay, the handles could be fixed. He ended up leaving the sign in a teacher's classroom because the handle broke. That was weird because it was only the sword part, not anything that you really had to hold. I wonder when he had seminary. Hopefully it was at the end of the day. Mike and Stockton were able to fix the handle when they got home.

Stockton seemed really happy with how the campaigning went today. Yay! Stockton's cousin, Brandon, is also running for a student body office at his school. Their campaigning started today too. Shannon sent me this picture of Brandon's booth. The difference is, they only get one day to campaign. Maybe just lunch, I don't know. Brandon found out after school that he didn't make it. That's too bad. All that work for just a few minutes chance.

Brandon's booth

Stockton was telling me about his drama class today. They were doing improve at the end and had to do a worst parent ever skit. When it was Stockton's turn he yelled, "Honey, I'm going to 'take your child to work day'!" He then leaned down and picked up an imaginary baby. He talked to the baby as he was walking away saying, "You get to see what your daddy does at Planned Parenthood." Stockton said the class busted up laughing, even the teacher. It is always good to get the teacher to laugh at you! As Stockton was taking his seat he heard a kid say, "I'm voting for him for sure now!"