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I've been working for the past 4 days with Warren Hendriks and Ellen Cahill in the surrogate office. It's been an interesting change from the War Room. The WR was a constant bang-bang-bang environment with a let-up only when you went home. The surrogate office is much more like a real job...mostly boring but interrupted by moments of sheer panic.

On Tuesday (1/22) we had a big surrogate, someone who was supposed to represent the campaign at an AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) event, "Divided We Fail" that was to be held in Tampa. Well, our surrogate, let's call him Boy'O, he decided with less than 24 hours to go, that he simply could not make it, so sorry and all of that. I had just called his assistant to confirm Boy'O's flight info so that one of our drivers could meet him when arrived and his secretary, with sunshine full in her voice, said he wasn't coming...ummm...hold on for Warren.

But these old bulls, such as Warren and Stan, they are magicians and before long Boy'O was back on, though at another event. In the meantime, we had to scramble to get someone to the AARP event and make sure that their travel arrangements were squared up.