But When They Hurled That Platter of Chimichangas, I Finally Called In the Cops

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Holly Bailey

It's no secret that folks in New Hampshire love presidential politics. Well, maybe not everybody. In town to cover Tuesday's GOP debate, your Gaggler was mingling with the locals at a downtown Manchester pub ("enterprise reporting," we call it) and met a man who manages a commercial building in the area. The man, who declined to be named for reasons that will become obvious, said the dirty little secret in New Hampshire is that commercial property owners hate renting space to political campaigns, mainly because they have a bad reputation for being rowdy and obnoxious tenants.

How so? Without naming names--and believe me, we tried--the man shared war stories about political types who leased space in his building during the 2004 primary season. Suffice to say, most of the stories had all the elements of a really good Motley Crüe afterparty: cops, lots of beer and drunk people. There was one about a campaign that was so noisy that people in adjacent buildings complained. "We'd get calls at 10 or 11 at night, and you'd have to go down there to tell them to knock it off," the man griped. "But you'd get there and find out that no one was in charge. The person you needed to talk to- they were never there."

But noise was nothing. One campaign, he says, threw a massive party before vacating their space, which spilled out into the hallways during the afternoon workday. During that fiesta, campaign workers, again no names, started a food fight in which a platter of lasagna was inexplicably thrown against the wall and left there. At least that's what he thinks happened. He came across the bloody scene after the campaign had moved out-the stain of tomatoes and grease still fresh. Nearly four years later, he's still mad about it. "Lasagna!" the man said, throwing up his hands in exasperation. "Lasagna on the wall! These are some nasty people."

Tag(s): Campaign 2008, Trail Mix

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