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Letter to the Editor

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Seacoast Online

It is a letter that I sent to the paper about Wendy.  It was printed in the letters to the editor section.  Here is a copy of the letter:

To the Editor:

I have to tell this story because I am so proud of my wife. She started labor at about 1 a.m. Sunday. She was having pretty steady contractions by 9 am. We wanted to stay at home as long as we could.

We both are pretty passionate about voting and yesterday was the Maine Democratic presidential caucus, we had been looking forward to it for several weeks. I joked with Wendy around 1 that we had to vote, her response was "yes we do". So we went to the local school to cast our vote. We had never been to a "caucus" before and we didn't realize it was a meeting followed by a vote. We waited in line for about 30 minutes to register (she had three contractions while in line)!

At that point we realized the baby could come anytime and that maybe sitting through the whole hour meeting would not be good idea. We spoke to some of the election officials and told them our story. We really wanted to vote but sitting for an hour wasn't going to work. We couldn't wait for his response so we had to leave. We went home a little disappointed that we couldn't vote but we felt good that we did all we could (our forefathers would have been proud). At about 4 p.m. we decided it was time to go to the hospital, on our way out the door the phone rang, it was someone from the caucus. They did some research and due to our circumstances they could allow our vote over the phone. So as we headed out the door we cast our vote. Three hours later Wendy gave birth.

Our baby was born at York Hospital.

Shaun Casey

Eliot

Caucus Update

WE VOTED!  When we were at the caucus  I appealed to the people in charge to allow us to vote due to our circumstances.  They said it was not possible.  We had to leave before the vote.  WELL we jost got a call from one of the people at the Caucus and they said they could take our vote over the phone.YES!  I love America.

Back from Caucus

Back from the caucus.  It was our first caucus and we didn't make it till the end to vote.  We gave it a shot.  Wendy had several contractions so we had to go.  We didn't know you had to wait until the end to vote.  The doors close at 2:30 and don't open again until 3:30 AND THEN the voting begins.
I couldn't explain the chaos we just experienced.  It was PACKED.  The parking lot was just about full and they were starting to BLOCK CARS IN! I am telling you another 5 minutes and we would have had to call an ambulance to get us out because our car would have been blocked in.. PHEW.

We gave it our best shot to take place in the Democratic process.  The forefathers would be happy with our effort. I will cast my vote here...NOT
On the Birthing front-the action has got the process humming again.  Since our return the contractions are steady at about 3:30 between.

No Politics Allowed

Those of you who know me well know that I don't like to talk about politics and I would certainly not publish my political feelings on a blog.   A friend sent me this video and I was touched by it.  I share it with you not as a political advertisement for Mr. Obama but as a message..the message is clear...VOTE.

(SPC)