THIS BENCH IS DEEP

In the next few days I will be writing about the 17th Congressional District Candidates' Forum in Moline. For today, I just want to say two things:

First, Central Committeeman Johnston played it right down the middle--no favoritism toward anyone. Short intro and say your piece in ten minutes. Same for Committeewoman Boland, notwithstanding that she happens to be married to one of the candidates;

Second, Of Seven Candidates, six gave outstanding performances and the other was very good. All would devour Zinga at a debate without so much as a side order of barbecue sauce.

Third (I lied about just two things), it was just a great group to be with, candidates, officeholders and committemen. We stayed and talked until almost everybody left and all the candidates were generous with their time. My "jerk detector" only beeped once the whole time.