Guest blog: A tickin and a taskin for Professor Raskin
Landscape architect, soccer coach, and poet (who knew?) Byrne Kelly of Takoma Park sent in this ode to Jamie Raskin. Like bards of old, Byrne recited his poem at Raskin's victory party. Got any photos or other interesting paraphernalia from the primary, send them in. —ed
A tickin and a taskin for Professor Raskin
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick-tock
Tick tock, knock-knock, how many votes you got?
How many votes you gonna get?
At how many doors did you stop?
One thing you were not, was a sure bet……….and yet:
Here’s Jamie Raskin Professor of multi-tasking.
And lately he’s been an asking for your support,
don’t worry, nothing to do with a tort or a court.
He just needed your vote, and a financial note
He won’t let you be silent, and he won’t shut-up
Until perhaps, you may elect him, or just elect to buck-up
He’ll take any private contribution, of any legal monetary denomination.
Just be prepared, as he’ll generously share both his intellect, & intuition
And he’ll possibly school you on our Federal, or now, our State’s Constitution
That Jamie Raskin is up to the Task, whether in Victory or Defeat
To know, and campaign for him, is for many, an invigorating treat
The incumbent opponent was once just fine, Ms. Ruben has proven, she too did, shine,
But as a majority, we know we have to progress, in order to defeat the Republican mess,
So I’d a rather have Jamie in the State Senate, where, there he can truly profess,
And, we as Democrats can dethrone the Governor and rightfully complete our redress.
So: Tonight we are gathered, empowered by Jamie and Sarah
To relish in theirs, and our efforts, to elect a man with a Democrat’s integrity
Campaigning for what’s right, in the face invented negativity
Now it is on to November and let no one forget, to remember, to vote again, then,
for the multi-tasking and incomparable, Jamie Raskin.
—Byrne Kelly