While he was serving as one of the 2,286 delegates at last week?s Republican National Convention in Tampa, lifelong Braintree resident Matthew Sisk shared an elevator with a former senator from Texas, waited to get coffee with the governor of New Jersey and estimated he was 15 yards away from where an Oscar-winning director conducted a one-sided conversation with an empty chair representing President Obama.
?It was something else,? said Sisk, 34, a Town Meeting member from 1999 to 2007 who served as Braintree?s representative to the Blue Hills Regional School Committee from 2003 to 2006. ?I?ve never experienced anything quite like it before. It was a lot of fun. It was a great experience meeting fellow Republicans from across the country.?
An elected member of Braintree?s Republican Town Committee since 2002, Sisk was re-elected in March to a third four-year term on the Republican State Committee, representing Quincy, Holbrook, Abington and Rockland as well as Braintree. He was elected as a convention delegate during the April 28 8th Congressional District caucus at town hall.
Sisk had assumed that the convention would ?basically be a made-for-TV event,? but found out that there were plenty of tasks to keep he and the other delegates busy.
?It reminded me of what we do at our state conventions,? he said. ?We voted on the platform and voted on the rules that will govern future conventions.?
At one point, Sisk decided to take a moment to catch his breath and found himself in the same elevator with former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who once sought the GOP presidential nomination.
?I was a little star-struck, to be honest with you,? Sisk said.
Sisk, who was looking forward to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie?s keynote address, wasn?t disappointed.
?I enjoyed his speech,? Sisk said. ?I admire someone who has worked so hard to get to where he is today. He has his beliefs, he thinks that what he believes is right and apparently the voters of New Jersey agree with him.?
Sisk met Christie at the Marriott Tampa Waterside Hotel, where they both were staying.
?He was in line to get coffee,? Sisk said. ?I asked if I could have my picture taken with him and he said yes. In person, he was very much like he comes across on TV.?
As for the appearance of Clint Eastwood on the closing night of the convention, Sisk believes that not being far away from the Hollywood icon gave him a different perspective than if he had watched the remarks on television.
??On TV, I can understand how the national audience could give it pause and find it a little strange, but in the moment, being there, it was very funny," Sisk said.
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