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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Tea Party at PA Post Office?
Uploaded: May 5, 2010
I was taking care of some company business this afternoon with Wells Fargo and the downtown PA post office at the corners of Waverley and Hamilton.
Maybe it was the time of day--it was earlier for me than when I typically am there, but there did appear to be some "Tea Partiers" on the Post Office side of the corner.
I had to go right past them, and elected to not try to engage in any sort of dialog, since they had several posters with a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache with copy that said "Impeach Obama." There also was a poster of a African American guy that was part of the display, and since I just wanted to get past the white man and white woman managing this display, I have no idea who he is or why there was a poster of him.
The folks "running" that corner did not come across to me as ones who were interested in meaningful discussion. Besides, I was running errands for work, not cruising downtown.
They did come across to me as what has emerged as "Tea Partiers" in the last year. Fascinating implications that folks with this perspective on things are showing up in college towns. Stanford has a conservative bent overall, but the intellectual capacity on the Farm is beyond reproach.
A Hitler mustache on a picture of our President Obama? Come on.
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