When I was a kid, Labor Day meant school was starting soon. It meant the leaves would soon be changing
colors and football games in the neighbor’s front yard were about to become a
daily routine.
About 20 years ago, in a different phase of my life when I
managed political campaigns for a living Labor Day weekend meant the official
start to the campaign season.
Now of course the pundits are already speculating about who
the GOP will elect to run against Mrs. Clinton in 2016 while local campaigns are implementing
their absentee voter strategy in early August because to wait until after Labor
Day is the same as conceding the
election.
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This Labor Day weekend I’m reverting to another chapter of
my youth. I’m celebrating the start of
the college football 2013 season. Go
UCLA!
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