Picnic Time

The Mohave County Republican Picnic each August is held up in the Hualapai Mountains and serves as a fundraiser for our county party. It's always a lot of effort to get people to come because the location is so remote. But this year we sent out the invitations to the candidates--Federal, State Level, and Local, and we were inundated with candidates.

So someone had the idea of gathering all the candidates for a photo. Only thing, you couldn't fit us all into one photo. There must've been 50 candidates.



I am standing next to Havasu's Mayor, and next to him on the left is Governor Jan Brewer. She has her head turned.
Some were candidates who haven't had the opportunity to campaign in Mohave County very much, and I was glad to see them. In fact, I made sure to shake hands with EVERY candidate and I also thanked them for making the trip to our event. Some said they were thrilled to take part in the BIGGEST campaign event right before the Primary Elections (which are tomorrow, by the way) and some were surprised that I'd be thanking THEM for coming. By this time of year, most groups are sick of hearing from candidates and want nothing to do with them.

The Sheriff's Dept was kind enough to have a K-9 Unit demonstration, and that was quite interesting:



And of course we heard from our Governor. She's always entertaining...



All the candidates had the opportunity to address the crowd, and they did just that. Some spoke for twelve minutes ( excruciating ) and some spoke for less than one minute ( love that!! )

Normally we close things down at 2pm, but because of all the speeches we didn't get done till almost 4pm. At least it was nice weather!