What fun! I got hassled tonight collecting Recall Walker signatures!

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60. When I lived in ultra-liberal Madison back in the 80s and 90s, I got the

scare of my life when precinct walking for Dukakis in 1988.

I went onto the enclosed porch of a house somewhere south of the downtown area. I gave the little prepared Dukaks spiel. Guy listened to me in silence. "I'd like to vote for Dukakis . . . " (pregnant pause) "except for the fact that he's pro-abortion."

I sputtered a few shocked words about how I thought Dukakis favored a woman's right to choose and by then the guy was positively glaring at me. Right about this time, I noticed that I was standing on his enclosed porch and started feeling distinctly threatened by the guy - he may have even taken a step or two toward me - I high-tailed it out of there like my ass was on fire.

It's funny because I have subsequently been physically assaulted protesting alone against the Iraq War in 2004 here in LA. But I was never so frightened as I was that day in liberal Madison. To this day, I am sure that had I stayed on his porch 5 seconds longer I would have at the least been assaulted or worse. It was positively creepy.

Best (unsolicited ) advice I can give you is to try to pair up with a kindred spirit so you're not out there all by yourself. My wife absolutely refuses to let me protest by myself any more. I have to have at least one other person watching my back.

Please do be careful. And thank you for your service.