"Hello, how are you?" "Tom Caffee, running for reelection in the 7th." "Tom Caffee, I'm running for reelection, how are you?" "Oh, Pat, hello!" "Good to see you darling, how are you?" "Appreciate your vote." "Thank you very much?" "I want you to take your door-knockers." "You go house to house." "You knock." "You wait five seconds, you knock again." "If they're home, you be polite, shake their hands give them a copy this lay, like this." "Face out, so the first thing they see is Tommy's name." "If you knock twice and no one answers, you hang the knockers around the knob, face out." "Face out, so the first thing they see, is Tommy's name." "Here you go, Mr. Cavanaugh, one step at a time." " I have to go back upstairs." " No, no, you gotta go to the van." " I have to go to the bathroom." " You go to the bathroom after you vote." "Do your civic duty, and you go to the bathroom." "Don't push!" "Yeah, I get syphilis." "Which one of you farted?" "I can taste it!" "Big day for your brother." "Yeah." "I got this fucking thing somewhere." "Shame the way him and the mayor are always going at it hammer and tongs, you know." "Well you know, the two of us just have set an example for them." "Fuck." "Finest Danish set you get smuggle through customs." "I appreciate your understanding my need for discretion." "It's a sensitive situation." "I don't really wanna be tied to it." "I'm on it to built on our friendship." "The road to friendship is paved with baby steps." "I got a contract to coming in from outer town, he needs an escort." "Keys to a clean work car." "You pick him up, you take him to the place, he does the deed." "You take him to the train station in time for the 3:50 back to Connecticut." "Easiest pie." "I'll pass on the other side." "I know that's good shit, but to me, it always taste like toilet paper." "You sure you're Italian?" "You like breaking my balls, huh?" "May I ask you something?" "This guy you gonna clip?" "What did he do?" "A little this, a little that..." "I need my purse." "Just, uh..." "I need to find my purse." "Do you think they take a check or do I need cash?" "Don't worry about it." "Mike gave me enough to take care of everything." "The clinic's only ten minutes away." "If you want, we have time for you to have a drink before we go." "Don't do that." "Okay, don't be nice to me." "I know you're trying to be nice to me." "You just need to drive me to the clinic, so I can do this." "Alright." "Besides, I think I'm not supposed to... drink anything for twelve hours before I..." "Probably smart." "Detective Gigs." "Did you vote yet?" "No, not yet." "It's a privilege not to be taken lightly." "I got word from Freddie Cork for your Moe Reilly." "He wants me to help turn out the vote for Tom Caffee." "Can I assume you won't be doing anything in violation of the law?" "Absolutely." "It's very important that your behavior is not impugning integrity of my office." "'Right." "Hey Tommy, we've got the photographer." "A smile there." "Look at each other." "Very nice." " Thank you." " Thank you." "So, where's your next?" "Go to the corner, shake some hands." "Alex has my schedule." "Hey, listen, why don't you head on down to the phone banks." "Are you sure you don't want me with you?" "Need more help at the phone bank, really." "Divide and conquer." "I'm just gonna be distracted all day." " Tommy, I got the call upfront." " Okay." "Uh, wait." "Mary Kate put that on me." "Here." "Now you look like you have the luck of the Irish." "I love you." " Nice to meet you." " Good to see you." "It has been a joy and a pleasure." "I'll be right with you." "Here you go." " You the guy I'm looking for?" " Who else would I be?" "Want some coffee?" "There's a free breakfast buffet inside lousy coffee, but it's hot." "I'm all set." "Got the address?" " Yeah." " Just pop the trunk, we're going." "Don't forget to vote, vote for Tom Caffee." "And the endorsed democratic slate." "Don't forget, now!" "Vote for Tom Caffee sir." "And the entire democratic slate." "Vote for Tom Caffee!" "Don't forget to vote!" "Maeve!" "You didn't vote yet." "I know by your guilty eyes." "I was gonna go." "But I had to run some groceries up to my mother in law and..." "Vote for Tom Caffee, thank you." "Don't forget to stop and vote for Tommy and give these out to anyone you see!" " Morning." " Hello, Mr. Major." "Morning." "Good morning!" "Gotta get to the polls today, alright?" "Hey, you gotta get to the polls, too?" " Here you go." " Jim Green Keyes, how are you?" "Please, vote today." "Get out to the polls!" "An honest change on the hill." "An honest representation on the hill, for a change." "Please, Jim Green Keyes, State Rep, sir." " Vote for him today." " You gonna vote today?" "Good." "Look, they forgot the 'S' in faces." "It should be "faces of reform"." "Could I get a Jameson on the rocks?" "Hear that?" "*" "It's a cop." "You boys been to the polls, yet?" "Go vote!" "Come back and I'll buy you two shots." "One vote, two shots." "Tell your friends over here all day." "Not allergic to latex, are you?" "No." "You got quite a reputation." " What do you mean?" " You know what I mean." "No, I don't" "Yeah, Bunny." "All right, what did Baxter do now?" "What do you mean?" "On the..." "On the rugger or just the corner?" "Have the ply bar." "Alright, well..." "Put some resolvant and I'll take care of it when I get home." "His car is in the driveway so it shouldn't take long." "Are we good?" "Nobody home." "Hi, I'm calling on behalf of representative Tommy Caffee and the Democratic party." "I'm just calling to see if you voted yet today and if you haven't if you'd like us to arrange a ride to the polls for you." "Ah, fantastic." "Okay, great." " Hello?" " Hi, I'm calling on behalf of..." "Tom Caffee is the only candidate in the ballot who cared to bring real health care reform to Rhodes Island." "Hi, I'm calling on behalf of representative Tommy Caffee" "I'm just calling to see if you voted yet today and if you haven't if you'd like us to arrange a ride to the polls for you." "I haven't voted and I don't need your stinking ride." " Could I..." " Fuck off!" "I'm working for you guys, I really am." "You remember, universal health care is got to be taken care at state level." " Yeah, what is it, Mom?" " I just saw the major, with your opponent, Jim Green Keyes," "They were shaking hands outside the Dunkin Donnuts." "What do you want me to do about it?" "They are slandering you, Tommy!" " It's politics, Ma." " The major wants the Latino vote, so to curry favor, he's making a symbolic show of supporting Green Keyes." "There's nothing symbolic about this flyer." "All the wores they have with them outside Dunkan Donnuts." "Alright." "Call the major and register our strong objections of this flyer." "And then suss out how big a push they're making on Green Keye's behalf." "You got it." "I gotta get back to work, Ma." "Hello Doug, how are you?" " Right here, sir." " Morning, I'm Jim Green Keyes." "I'm running for state rep, I hope you to get out to vote." "Morning, I'm Jim Green Keyes." "Running for state rep," "Get out and vote today." "Morning, I'm Jim Green Keyes." "Get out and vote for me, alright?" "He the new boss?" "Excuse me?" "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." "Any candidate promising reform has a ten-year life span." "Five years of reform, five year of hanging on to power." "The Hills have Tommy Caffee for eight." "You don't have to stay." " You are not supposed to say that." " Fuck it!" "You do what you want." "You've got two, you gonna handle three?" "I'll have to get a new job, more hours," "Your could-- could get a cousin to help out during the day." "Maybe Eddie'd help out." "Oh, God." "He's not Michael on the bright one in the department, but," " You know, I mean..." " Don't use Eddie." "What do you want?" " I didn't call to fight." " So what?" "You called to tell me about the big Cuban cock you suck last night?" "He was Mexican." "And you cheated on me way before I ever cheated on you." "Look, I'm..." "I'm really busy right now." "I thought you wanted to know." "We got some date from exit polls." "Your boy Tommy's in trouble." "What are you talking about?" "Morning data is showing a huge Latino turn out paired with soft numbers in the Irish wards." "If the trend holds, your guy could get blindsided." "You saying we could lose?" "I thought I owed you the heads up." "Why don't you come by Saturday?" "." "I'll make sure I'm not around, so you can get your things." "I'll leave the post/past* and make her an hefty *." "I appreciate." "So, what's next in the agenda?" "I think our agenda just went kablooie." "Shoot, what are the lines like up on the Hill?" "Two-minute wait at most." "Tommy, hey!" "What brings you down to San Valente?" "Just checking out the-- The turnout." "Yeah, who knew so many of 'em are fucking citizens, huh?" "You voted yet?" "No, I mean-- after my shift." "Be sure you do." "Of course, I mean-- you lost by one vote," " I'd be the asshole, right?" " Yeah." "Think they have some good Robert Ludlum or something." "What did this guy do, anyway?" "Who knows?" "It really matter?" "If I don't push the button on him, somebody else will." "So?" "I'm guessing you don't have a lot of friends." "Right?" "Ever kill a queer?" "Fuck you." "I push the button on an English teacher once, he wasn't a pederast but he was a queer." "Truth to tell, queers are more tougher than straight guys." "It makes sense." "The psychological pain of coming out toughen them." "Drag queens are the worst." "You can't get them to scream for nothing." "Jimmy?" "What are you doing?" "You're supposed to be five blocks over at Sullivan by now." "There's a woman, she's replace the knockers with her knockers so I circle back" " and of course she circle back..." " Jimmy," "What?" "I'm just trying to get out Tommy's knockers." "What about the ten other blocks of houses." "You didn't get to." "She would have replaced them and then... no one would have any of these knockers." "One knocker, each door." "Get them out!" "You're not being fair." "I put up with a lot, and you're not being fair." "I know :" "one knocker each door." "Here he is, Prince of the hill." "All good, you got the bottle, I'll set up" "No, no, get these chairs out here, we're gonna need all the space, alright?" "Tommy, which ties gonna look better on TV?" "The dark one." "~The * one ain't that old Maurey.~" "Right." "Do you know the Major and the Governor were coming after me?" " Like they are coming after me?" " You know what I mean." "Demographics in your district don't slide in the wrong direction." "Ah, the booze, good." "Put all this behind the bar, except... the good scotch." "I want you to hide that in the closet." "Friends only, you understand?" " Yes sir." " Good boy." "I need the caging list." "I know the chairman has them." "Tommy, the Major and the Governor coming after you with a few ground shoots, ok?" " You'll be the one who go nuclear." " Don," "There's' a forty-five minute line outside the poll in the Lower End." "You serious?" "They fund the tunnel late money into the race thinking my people would be complacent and they'd just sneak up on me." "If I want to hold them off, I need the list." "Alright." " I got to run it by the chairman." " No, we don't have time." "Poll close at nine and every minute I'm losing votes." "Are you sure you want to go scorched earth?" "They're the ones who came gunning for me." " What's up?" " Take this." "It's a caging list compiled by the party." "You go down to the Lower End, stand by the checking table." "If anyone on the list shows up, you challenge the residency and their right to vote." "If they want to cast the provisional ballot, fine." "But just don't tell them they have the right." "Most of the people on the list won't even speak good English, so, with a little luck, they'll just walk away." "I'm trusting you with this, Kate, because you're my sister." "Now, what do you want me to do?" "They're not exactly playing by * at Queen's bureau, either." "I love you, Katy." "I'll give you seven good hours on this." "I'll never forget." " You voted?" " Yeah." "Lou?" "Give this guy two shots." "Hey, if I vote again, I got two more?" "Yeah, sure." "You're with Kath?" "We should be out soon." " You want me to have her call you?" " Yeah." "No, no." "Things are kinda messed up in here." "I was thinking I might grab some... chink food on the way back?" "Spend some time with her." "Thanks, yeah." "It's a good idea." " She hates moo shu." " Right." "You get ribs." " Get double." " Right." "She'll say she doesn't like 'em, they should be all yours." "Right." "I call her as soon as I can." "Right." "I'll be finished in a minute." "We're in a dog fight." "Every vote on every street is in play." "Someone is sick, you drag him to the polls anyway." "If they're dead, you grab them by their dead end, and you mark the balance form." "Come on, let's go!" "Let's go!" "Come on, everyone!" "Let's go!" "If you care about your health, vote for Tom Caffee." "Have a nice day." "Alright now!" "New plan of attack." "If you have any Spanish speaker, we gonna move you to the other side of the room." "The rest of you, we have new scripts, and new numbers for you to call." "Read your script thorough carefully, so you know what you gonna say before you say it." "Hi." "I'm from the board of elections." "Have you voted yet today?" " No." " Oh, good." "Well, you want to just let you know that due to heavy turnout, voting has been extended an extra day." "So you shouldn't vote today." "You wait, vote tomorrow." "Now, here's the flyer," "It's all in Spanish and it'll explain everything." "And we're trying to get the word out so maybe you just tell your neighbors." "We'll be on the 6:50 at the latest." "Alright, I see you at the station." "Love you too, Bunny." "Is that our guy?" "It's a woman, she heads out the path." "Let's go." "It's probably the wife, get in the kitchen and stay there." "What the fuck matter with you?" "She's not the target." "She shouldn't have come home." "Get the ball-gag from the bag." "Please." "You know, worst, I thought you'd shake off your hands with Green Kaye and stand on the side lines." "You know, I never thought you'd come after me with a ball-peen hammer." "That was most of the Governor's idea." "Mostly." "I'm still gonna win." "That is the all point of election day, isn't it?" "When I win, I'm still gonna be majority leader." "And I'm gonna remember who did what today." "Tomorrow, if you're still majority leader, we and I are gonna become good friends all over again." "That is in the best interest of our people." "What I want to be friends right now?" "It's already two o'clock." "Forty percent of our people vote after work between 5 and 9pm." "If you to pull your ground troops out right now, and then make sure voting in the Latino presincts cut off at nine sharp," "that could swing a thousand votes." "And what if all the voters are already in line" " at nine o'clock?" " Then, they'll be left outside." "And would miss out in participating in the democratic process." "You know Tommy, I would need the hill to become a very quiet place." "No crises of outrage if I close the community pool, or open homeless shelter." "And of the course the hill will go to last position on the need-to-be-plowed list when it snows." "With global warming, who needs snowplows?" "The wife wasn't part of your contract." "What's your point?" "How do you know she's even involved?" "If she just had the bad luck to marry an asshole." "She saw your face, she saw my face..." "When the husband comes home, we get sure to control him." "After that I don't see what choice we have." "What if I have a problem with that?" "You won't." "Besides which, I'm the contractor, you're just the escort." "Your name please?" "I'd like to challenge his residency." " What does that mean?" " It means still you prove you're living in the district, your vote can't be counted." " But I live just on the street." " I'm sure you do, but we need to prove that to the board of elections." "Those are the rules." "Next." "Mrs. Garcia, hi." "I'm calling because I want to give you some informations on Jim Green Keyes." "Jim Green Keyes thinks it's time we stop cuddling illegal immigrants who are sucking our services dry and forcing us to use foreign languages in our schools." "Jim Green Keyes believes it's time to pull out the draw bridge and keep America for Americans." "Keeping that on mind, do you mind if I ask who you plan to vote for today?" "Thank you for your time." "Mr. Ramos, hi." "I'm calling because I want to give you some informations on Jim Green Keyes." "I want you to listen very carefully." "Do you want to live?" "Then you do exactly what I'm telling you." "I'm gonna take this thing off." "I need to you to be quiet as a fucking mouse." "Can I trust you?" "Shut the fuck up!" "Right now, I'm the only person who can help you." "Do you understand that?" "I want to know what your husband did" " to piss off Alphonse Nozzoli." " I don't know." " What your husband's name?" " Josh." "What is Josh do for living?" "He sells computer equipment." "He's just a *." "I'll do anything, I'll suck your dick..." " Tell me what to say, I'll say it." " I just need you tell me the truth." "How does he know Nozzoli?" "I don't know." "I don't believe you." "Please, please..." "You need to listen to me." "If you tell me the truth," "I'm gonna let you go." "I'm gonna take your lose of, you walk out the backdoor." "But I need you to tell me the truth." "You will have to tell me... what he's done." "I don't know." "I'm giving you a fucking chance, here." "I don't know, I don't know..." " Son of a bitch!" " Help!" "Shut up!" "The gag slipped." "I tried to put it back on, she went fucking snap and the turtle bit me." "That's all right." "Let her on the flood." "She'll get tired eventually." "Hey, Lou?" "I'll be back in fifteen minutes." "The two shots offer still stands." " You're doing your civic duty." " Yeah." "You look pretty glorious." "Kinda stopped eating/dating*." "I should let you uh..." " vote." " You vote for Tommy?" " Give your parents my best." " Yeah, I will." "Make sure you vote!" "Y'all due nine o'clock!" "Tom Caffee, how are you?" "Did you get a pinch in health care plan for your employees?" "I do look after the Irish." "Yeah, health care?" "I believe it's woman's choice." "One sec..." "Give me five minutes of your time, okay?" "Come on, just wait for 5 minutes here." "Come around, give me five minutes." "Alex, what's going on?" "I'm gonna stand up for what I think is right, right here, right now." "You know what I need from you, Mark?" "I need you to get down there and vote." "When all is said and done, you'll be glad that you voted for Tom Caffee, I swear to God." "Tell me what you did, Josh?" "What?" "Okay, let's go." "With the polls now close and the early numbers coming in, the Governor and the Mayor appear to be cruising to easy victories, but, number of local raises are turning out to be much closer than expected." "The central drama of this election night will be whether the Democrats at the the General Assembly can hold on to the super majority that has allowed them to ballot the Governor" " on key issues, such as health care..." " Lou, could you do me a favor and turn this fucking TV off?" " It's the election's results." " The Democratic camps sounded..." "I'll give you forty bucks if you turn the TV off, alright?" "I had Tommy be home and dry by now.* // I'd have?" "We always knew it be a tight race." "We're still, waiting to hear from our strongest precincts." " Well, good luck to you." " Right." "Cheers, everybody salute!" "What?" "It's uh..." "It's very attractive." "If you can't be silly, what's the fun of life?" "Can I have a some of your beer?" "Can I have my beer back?" "Thank you." "Any word on the count on Tommy's district?" "No final count yet." " Where's Jimmy?" " Home, he's..." "He's not really happy right now, I was kind of riding him all day." "It was a long day." "We all did best we could." "I guess." " You did what you had to do." " Ma, don't push it." "Great work tonight." "You look like a fighter after fifteen rounds." "Twelve." "We're gonna go twelve now." "Thanks for your help today." "It's what a wife does for her husband." "Don't you think the other side didn't pull out the same strings I pulled worse." "This wasn't your finest day." "That's all." "I won't lie down for anyone." "I own the right to keep my seat." "Don't you * my ethics judgment, you of all people." "That's cheap, and low." "Here comes ~the edgie~ ?" "* // AG?" "(Attorney General)" " Michael Caffee." " General Murphy." "Tought night for you, personally." "Mrs. Caffee, how are you?" "You still want to know what he did?" "Just out of curiosity." "Well, if you want to know, I'll tell you." "Thought you said you didn't know?" "Sometimes I tell the truth and sometimes I don't." "Alright, so tell me." "No, I can't, Mr. Nozzoli would be very upset." " Fuck you, you don't know." " I do know." "I know exactly what our mark did." "Just not gonna tell you." "Why the fuck not?" "'Cause it's too much fun watching you squirm." "Yeah, bunny?" "No, still here." "About to take the ten fifty." "No, I know, I'm sorry." "No, stay in bed, I'll take a taxi." "Stand bed and I..." "I'll take a cab from the train." "Oh no, not the eighteenth, we're going to the Jet game with Ray and Ted on the eighteenth, is that right?" "That's right." "Hey, hold on." "My father always told me to tip the higher tab, so." "What about the week-end after that?" "You're still waiting to hear?" "We'll know within the hour." "I just wanted to check in on you." "I'd like to be down the hall, with you and Ma and Katy*." "But I got it." "Thanks." "The other side had some fliers." "Pictures of you and me, side by side." "If I lose, it would be my own fault." "Not 'cause of you." "It's that close?" "Wish you had told me." "You know, maybe I could've done something more." "I don't want to talk about it, I just..." "Just want to stare at my kids." "They are beautiful." "You should go home to Cath." "Good luck." "A scotch on the rock." " A good night for the Speaker." " Among others." "I just wanted you to know I know what you did this afternoon." "And then wanted you to know I don't care." "You or Green Keyes stay the seat," "In two years I could run my dead grandmother." "Be the boss of you." "Two years is an eternity in politics." "Enjoy, your two year eternity." "Tonight's a night to celebrate." "We won!" "Yeah!" " Hey man, congratulations!" " Thank you." "Thank you, thank you." "Thank you very much." "Congratulations." " Well done." "You did great Tommy." " Thank you very much." "You did great." "I'll be right back." "Still a State rep by the hair of his chinny chin chin, huh?" "Well, a win is a win as a win." "It's four and thirty seven votes between friends, huh?" "Seriously, Tommy, you're gonna have to make nice with your Latino brothers." "You know, I may go just run for Governor." "Sure, why not, huh?" "I'll be your Lieutenant, Governor." " Good night." " Good bye." "You are a lucky man." "Beautiful." " Drive safe." "Think about it." " Thank you, Speaker." " Good night, Tommy." " Night." " You did good." " Thank you." "Congratulations." "Thanks."