Road Trips

John Kerry's daughter Vanessa brought her "Dorm Storm" tour to Washington yesterday, with stops at Western Washington University in Bellingham and the University of Washington in Seattle before joining Seattle For Kerry volunteers for a meet and greet in the evening.

She wasn't alone in town, though. Howard Dean rolled in for a couple stops of his own. The Seattle Times makes much of his appearance at an SEIU sponsored town hall meeting on home health care issues, but little of the $1000 a plate campaign lunch that filled his idle hours. $1000 a plate, Howard? How, ummm, grass-roots of you. I wonder how many of those home health care workers were able to pony up for that noon time snack?