This is very sad news.....That's a great article in The Post.
A Clark campaign worker has posted a very nice memory of Eli at CCN....
"But my memory of Eli Segal was not as some elusive Campaign Chair who
courted the political elite. It was of a man who, during the last
two weeks before the critical New Hampshire Primary, camped out in a
corner of an office at the Manchester headquarters, instead of the
hotel suite where most of the national staff set up a mini "Little
Rock" headquarters. Eli was a person who wanted to get things done
and that meant being in the trenches and making sure the campaign
troops were getting what they needed.
.......
My last memory of Eli is the most telling. It was the night before
the Primary, right after 9 pm when we shut down the final phone
banks. I then called some New Hampshire family and friends for one
final push. I talked to my 22 year old nephew who had drifted from
Kucinich to Dean, so I knew I had a tough sell—even with my nephew.
But my nephew was working (if $7,000 per year is considered working)
for Americorp.. So I turned the phone over to Eli, telling my nephew
that the founder of Americorps was Wes' campaign chair. Eli talked
with my nephew for 15 minutes or so about each other's experiences
with Americorp and how a Wes Clark Presidency would be critical for
such programs and the values it instills.
I never asked my nephew how he voted, even though both Eli and I
worked him pretty hard. But the point of my story is that the last
image I have of Eli is not of him making big money fundraising calls
or rubbing elbows with the power-elites. It was of him standing in
the dusty and cluttered Manchester office asking a voter to vote for
Wes Clark for President."
Full account is here:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/4643#comment-77934Damn cancer! Took my dad well before his time too. :cry: