Nancy Ruth's Panel Extras - October

For this month's Thoughts From The Hill panel, I didn't really have too much added to ask the panel, since their feelings on the campaign were some twenty days ago now, which might as well have been an eternity.  But there was one thing that I was curious about, which our obliging Senator answered.

Q: Being as we’re in an election—what does a Senator normally do during an election? Are you campaigning on behalf or others, or are you organising?

A: You campaign on behalf of others, you go out and you speak at coffee parties, you support the candidates and stuff like that. You can do door-to-door as well, but I sprained my ankle this summer and my foot’s in a cast, so I’m not doing that bit of it. Various Senators do different things. Marjorie LeBreton is big-time on the campaign [on the plane].