Bus Breakdown...Again
NEAR EAST LANSING, MICH. -- For the second time in a week, the McCain press bus has broken down in the snow.
The first time was in New Hampshire on January 7. The bus slowed to a crawl on the interstate and eventually pulled over and stopped. McCain's N.H. advisor Steve Duprey jumped to the rescue and summoned a shuttle bus from the Concord Marriott to save members of the press who couldn't fit into the trailing vehicles.
Today's breakdown didn't involve any hotel shuttle buses. Instead, the stranded reporters were able to fit into a motor home that was trailing McCain's caravan.
After an extreme hustle to remove our headphones, gather our cameras and audio recorders, unplug our computers and save the files that we were working on, reporters, who had been sprawled out and plugged in to the new - and now, broken down - upgrade "The McCain Train," were squeezed onto the motor home, which got us to the next event in time to hear McCain's last five minutes of remarks.