Derby Randos
Get to our table, it's a little tight, the table next to us is 10-12 inches away. An hour later Joe and Kelly Craft roll in with their guest MKG and spouse and Sen Ted Cruz and spouse. Yep it's their table next to us. Spent the next 7 hours chatting it up with those cats and the dozens of guest that came to see them.
They had so many people visiting we hardly ever sat down because it was too crowded to pull your chair out. At one time there was Sen Cruz, Sen Rand Paul, Congressman Barr, Gov of Indiana, Gov of La, Gov of VA and Gov Abbott of Texas. Every single one of them was incredibly nice. Had 16 secret service behind us at one point.
Talked to Joe Craft 5 or 6 times, he kept apologizing for taking over our table. What a nice guy. One of my buddies says to him " I want to thank you for getting us Mark Pope"......
Craft says...." The question is , are you guys going to be thanking me this time next year".
I guess Joe is in wait and see mode also. We talked about business, UK etc. He says he still can't believe how it went down with Cal. Said Cal absolutely had no intention of going to Arkansas. Tried to " play a bad hand and got caught".
At one point when I was talking to Craft Gov Abbott gets wheeled in. From across the table he waved at Craft, Craft points at me and says " we were just talking about the border" and Abbot says to me " you got any ideas", all the politicians were watching, I started to freeze up, but the 2 mint Julips and 9 miller lights kicked in.......I said " I don't have any border ideas but Joe and I are glad to host all of you, drinks are on us today"
They all cackled, what a ham I was.
Got to run, but I'll be back with part 2 where goes down and brings up Mark Pope and his wife.