Just got a new job-for much more money. Goodbye NH Freeptards!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

I have been commuting 45 minutes to an hour each way to a job that I had to take because my unemployment was running out. Senior outside sales positions that pay well are scarce these days, as companies can get junior help for 1/4 of the salary. My new job puts me back earning what I did in 2001.

I have a great boss, who is also a Dem, and I feel bad giving my notice on Monday. We work well together, and I've built a good pipeline. However, there are some serious RW dumbasses who I won't miss. They have hung up anti-Kerry crap outside their cubes, and I have responded accordingly. One guy has a list of 'lies' in "Fahrenheit 9/11", but can't substantiate any of them. Typical!

Anyway, not to insult NH DUers, but I really feel for you folks living up there. I see 'Bush Cheney' stickers all over the place in Salem and Windham. Do you think Kerry has a shot?

I am excited to start my new job (a 3-mile commute tot he other side of Cambridge). It only took me three years to get back to the salary I earned in early 2001. No thanks to Bush's 'booming economy'. :eyes:

[olddem43]

1. Kerry is slightly ahead in latest NH Poll.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Well, judging from the people I've come in contact with

Bush is still popular. I really hope Kerry wins in NH, just so I can call my former colleagues and gloat.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. Congratulations!!!

:toast: :beer: :toast: :beer: :toast:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. Thanks!

:D

[Maestro]

3. Have a drink on me

Wait it is too early in the morning. Oh well. Congrats! :beer:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. Hey, it's 5 o'clock somewhere in the world!

:D

A bloody mary may be in order.

[stellanoir]

4. good for you &

congrats !!!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Thanks!

:D

[GOPisEvil]

9. Congratulations!!!

:toast:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. Thanks, David!

:D

[AlCzervik]

10. Congratulations!

My friend Lauie lives in Derry, she a former masshole and when i went back east to visit she had a * sticker on her car, i was very surprised. Must be something in the water.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. All the cheapskates from Mass move up there: No income tax, BUT

the property taxes are 3-4 times Mass property taxes, and it's hard to find a house for less than $300K-$350K in the towns bordering Mass. Do the math-can you imagine the mortgage payment AND a 30% property tax bill. Yikes!

Yeah, NH is a weird state. Kind of like Alabama in a progressive region. There is abject poverty in some of the counties there, but no one seems to notice.

[AlCzervik]

16. Did i mention the * supporting also

got laid off? She worked for Genuity. She loses her job and think * will fix everything.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

18. I know people that got laid off from Genuity also-and haven't found a job

and it's been a few years. Is she fairly intelligent? Can she understand how Bush economic policies have destroyed this country?

[AlCzervik]

20. Thats the thing

she is smart and she a great friend so i didn't pound her on it because i hardly ever see her since i now live in CA. She doesn't bash Kerry and she can't really say why she supports * other than..."What if we get attacked again". Which i reply..."What if". You can't live in fear, hell i live i the land of earthquakes and mudslides but i manage to get through my day. My other friend who lives in MA is hoping she'll see the light but we're no counting on it.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. I'm starting to think it's the water supply

how can one explain such a large number of Repukes in a Democratic region?

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. I live in Derry

there are fewer *-Cheney stickers and yard signs around here than I thought I'd see. In fact, the main drag, Rt 102, that runs from my neighborhood almost in Hampstead, all the way to Nashua, is curiously devoid of them.

I occasionally see a bumpersticker at the supermarket, and there's the one guy in town in the old pickup truck with all the *-cheney junk (and several handwritten bible verses) plastered on it.

But other than that, there are less, a lot less.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. Derry has some high property taxes

one of my current co-workers has a $10,000 property tax bill for not that much of a house.

I hope NH sees the light. Especially since they have been drained of their reserves for the war in Iraq. Why does NH vote so conservatively?

[DuckFan4ever]

13. Congratulations on the new job.

And the Red Sox swept the A's. Things are going pretty well for you right now.:party:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

15. I just hope they sweep the Rangers, and they don't go into a slump

after the All-Star break as they usually do.

I was VERY surprised to see my boys beat up Zito the other night. but we're still 6 behind the Evil Empire, with Tampa Bay 5.5 behind us.

[Maestro]

19. No sweep of the Rangers!

We are coming back strong tonight! Be prepared. We swept you guys once before. We are taking 2 of 3 in this series. :)

[DuckFan4ever]

22. At least you still have hope.

My Mariners are done and it's not even the all-star break. What a lost year for us. Are the Red Sox still looking at getting Olerud? M's probably give him up cheap.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

23. I would rather see us get pitching but Randy Johnson wants to go to

the Yankees. i wonder if Carlos Beltran is still available...