As close as they could get
Ryan Sabalow
Published August 29, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
As close as they could get
It wasn't within sight of Sen. Barack Obama, but it was as close as one California family could get Thursday.
Sitting at a bar on Federal Boulevard, Jimmy and Gina Ellis looked out at the stadium where their candidate would soon give his historic presidential-nomination speech.
"We're getting a sniff of history," said Jimmy Ellis, a labor organizer with California's largest teachers union.
The couple said they arrived on Wednesday with hopes - however slim - that they might somehow make it in to Invesco to see Obama.
Instead, they say they're happy enough getting Obama T-shirts and buttons and the chance to meet other Obama supporters.
"We've met so many wonderful people," Gina Ellis said. "We've exchanged so many e-mails and phone numbers."
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