Sean Bielat meet and greet in Hopedale

For the sec­ond time in 5 days I jour­neyed to Hope­dale to cover a meet and greet for a GOP can­di­date. Thurs­day I had the plea­sure of meet­ing Eliz­a­beth Childs for the first time today I had the plea­sure of renew­ing my acquain­tance with Sean Bielat

Before things got started he had time for an interview:

He then mixed with the crowd

The crowd seemed slightly larger than on thrusday’s event but this was a week­end so peo­ple would nat­u­rally be freeer, also I was a tad late to Thurs­days event as I’d never been to Tom Wesley’s home before so there may have been peo­ple who left early Thurs­day night. I rec­og­nized at least half a dozen peo­ple who I had seen three days before.

Sean Gave an open­ing statement

He then took a long series of ques­tions. Because of the sheer num­ber of videos I’ll be post­ing them over the course of the week

Here was his clos­ing statement

Now there is no ques­tion in my mind that both of these can­di­dates are far supe­rior to Joe Kennedy the 3^rd but what did peo­ple who heard both can­di­dates think. I talked to two peo­ple who attended both meet and greets

Myself I think Sean’s expe­ri­ence showed in how he han­dled him­self. there are sim­ply things that you do bet­ter when you’ve done it twice. I also sus­pect he will have an eas­ier time draw­ing activists but as any­one who fol­lowed the 2004 play­offs in Mass­a­chu­setts or the Scott Brown elec­tion can tell you, you have to play the series out and you don’t know until the vot­ers actu­ally make their decision.