Our event Friday September 5th was SO popular that a candidate for U.S. Congress assumed it was a political rally. This candidate was SO confused that he came with a legion of minions, some covered with stickers, all mostly scowling.

Yep, the wannabe politician named Bob Roggio who criticized a congressman for missing a couple of days of work when his mother died, came to Ardmore. Some still aren't really sure what dude looks like since this seems to be the first time he visited Lower Merion...of course he does it NOW because the election is so close, right?

What this candidate and his minions don't get is that if he had just come quietly as a private citizen to this event and casually checked it out, no one would have said a word. But this candidate and his minions tried to coopt and politick. The minions irritated our guests by trying to foist their candidate on people at a community celebration, as well as pestering people over and over to see if they were registered to vote. Yep, they tried to make an event about veterans and active duty soldiers, OUR community event, about THEM. Gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling doesn't it?
Camp Roggio Comes A Callin'

Someone needs to teach this candidate for manners, and should school him in event etiquette for the future...after all, the politicians who were there, at our event, are people who CURRENTLY REPRESENT US in office NOW, no matter what their aspirations for the future are. These elected officials came and celebrated and supported our event and did not politick AT ALL. Therein lies the difference, Bob Roggio. Teach your camp some party manners. This wasn't your event. We're sorry you can't afford your own in Lower Merion.

LOL, the end note on this is that this is almost a tradition --- it wouldn't be an election season around here if someone didn't try to co-opt us or surf an event, would it? In case everyone is still confused, this is what our event was about: