Elizabeth Dole and I share a special connection. She grew up about 12 miles from my university. She spoke at my graduation.
In the 90's I moved from NC to Kansas for a job. There I met and reported on Bob Dole's meteoric fall in 1996. I was the first to ask a question on his thank you tour. "Will your wife run for president?"
So then I move back to NC. I meet and talk to Elizabeth Dole after she became my senator. What. An. Asshole. I felt favorable towards her until then. She came off as a jerk.
And now, after running a last-minute dirty campaign, she's going home. Oh, not to Salisbury. D.C. She spent almost no time in NC.
That, in addition to my good friend and hometown girl Bev Purdue getting elected governor have made my day.
I live in VA now, everything here went my way and I'm happy.
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