Suzette and I dressed up and went to the Sandia Casino and
Resort for a dinner and Fund Raiser for Tom Udall. We had our picture taken with Tom and Sherrod
Brown who was the guest speaker and talked to Jill a few minutes and met a few
folks we knew. It turned out to be much
more fun that I thought it would be. We
sat beside a doctor couple, Steve Kanig and his wife, Aberry?, who is president of the AMA in
New Mexico who, it turned out, own a condo in Puerto Vallarta, so we compared
notes on PV and started feeling like we needed to go to Sayulita again.
The dinner choices were a chicken breast sprinkled with red
chili or a vegetarian choice, which turned out to be eight ricotta filled
ravioli laid in a circle around a plate with the center filled with sautéed
zucchini tossed with a light pesto sauce.
I tasted the chicken and rejected it immediately. The waitress kindly brought me the vegetarian
choice. I loved it. The raviolis had been heated in water or in a
bag in the microwave (I can only guess how these food service secrets operate)
so they were soft pillows of dough and cheese.
The squash was lovely, blanched but not over cooked and lightly tossed
with pesto.
We were also served a fresh salad as an appetizer and a
slice of spice cake drizzled and spread with a cream cheese icing. There were bottles of wine on the table and
we both chose the Mondavi CV or CK cabernet sauvignon; obviously a restaurant
grade wine, which was fine.
All in all it was a great evening.
It was fun meeting Tom. I asked him how he planned to fix the
filibuster rules in the Senate and he told me that he wanted to see there be a
live speaking filibuster period and then a vote by majority vote on bills to
end the 60 vote hurdle and silent filibuster that now exists that allows one
senator to require a super majority o every bill without disclosing his
identity. I got the feeling that Tom
was still willing to work for this rule change.
He said that the reason the Democrats did not push for it this year was
because the Republicans agreed to not oppose the confirmation of the Democrats’
nominees for public office. In other
words to not use the filibuster to stop them, and Harry Reid, did not want to
rub the Republicans’ noses in it by forcing a rule change because the
Republicans had consented to confirmation of the Democrats’ nominees .
Also Tom said he would try to get Obama to sign my Chuck
Close portrait of Obama, which is how I was invited to the dinner. Apparently Tom saw that I had donated
$2,500.00 to the Democratic Party last year and called me to invite me last
week to this fund raiser. I told him I
had donated to get a picture of Obama, but said I would make a donation to his
re-election campaign.
Last year, I saw an article in the New Yorker describing a
fund raising mechanism called “Artists for Obama” which included a series of
200 original signed lithographs by Chuck Close being offered for a $5,000
donation for each to raise a $1,000,000 and I donated $5,000 for one.
Bon Appétit
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