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Right-Turn Lane Suits Member Of 'McCain's Mavericks'

Tribune photo by KATHY MOORE

Rhonda Burel campaigns for the McCain Palin ticket on Bearss Avenue Tuesday morning.

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 4, 2008

Updated: 11/04/2008 08:10 am

8:10 a.m.: Rhonda Burel seemed determined to be part of a news story today, and not in a good way.

She stood in the right-turn lane off bustling Bearss Avenue in front of the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library in Tampa holding a McCain/Palin sign she had yanked from the ground outside the polling place.

Occasional cars zipping by honked, maybe a sign of support or maybe a warning.

"We have soldiers in Iraq doing things more dangerous," she said.

She spent 12 hours outside the poll Friday and Saturday and took off work as an executive assistant today, intending to spend the day.

She's part of a small group of about a half dozen that call themselves "McCain's Mavericks."

"People stay after they vote," Burel said. One woman with a son in Iraq stopped one day and came back the next. With cupcakes.

Burel had never gotten involved with a campaign before.

"I have to do something this year. If Obama is elected and I don't do something, I can't say anything. We just have to go out and do what we believe in," she said.

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