The Vice President's visit
It is Tuesday, October 19, 2010 and Senator Barbara Boxer is paying a visit to Taft Elementary School in Friendly Acres, talking to the 3rd grade in an after school program she helped secure funding for.Expecting the Senator to finally leave, the classroom teacher isn't sure exactly what's going on as more people seem to be arriving instead of going, and helicopters are flying overhead. Next thing she knows, in walks Vice President Joe Biden.
In a bid to retain her State senate seat, Ms Boxer, who was running against Republican rival Carly Fiorina (former HP CEO), had decided to bring in some big guns to help her campaign's fundraising event in San Francisco - and while he was here, sneak in some warm and fuzzy, kid-friendly P.R. Apparently Biden's visit was a surprise even to the school district.
