More detail from the Sarah Palin - George Allen event....

Some of the stuff that goes in the notebook doesn't quite make the paper, but the Shadplank gives us a great place to offer up some of the interviews and details that didn't quite make the paper.

First here's a little more of my interview with Arnold Argandona, who drove up from North Carolina for the event. I got a chance to meet him outside the rally at the Ted Constant Convocation Center before he got started, and he is not shy about wanting to take back the GOP from the more moderate wing.

North Carolina Navy veteran Arnold Argandona chairs the Republican Party in Currituck County, and he drove 45-minutes to Norfolk last weekend to hear Sarah Palin and George Allenspeak. Argandona believes that the GOP has been diluted by Democrats pushed right as the liberal wing shifted further to the partisan left.

Argandona said closet Democrats coupled with “blue blood Republicans” are ruining the party.

“I’m fighting to get conservatives to take back the Republican Party,” said Argandona, originally from California. “I grew up with the pothead, long-haired hippies. I didn’t like them then, and I don’t like them now.”

Period. Ahem.

As the personal pictures with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were wrapping up in the back reception hall, I was trying to shoot video of the former vice presidential nominee, when someone came running through the hall.

At first I thought I might have done something to offend security, and feared that I was about to get tackled, but then a man in a crisp dark suit came flying past me and into the dwindling line for pictures. I shrugged it off as some overanxious fan, until he turned around and it was none other then 2nd District GOP chairman Gary Byler.

Byler had been called to the stage for an introduction and I guess he was worried that he wouldn't get that frame-worth shot of himself and Palin for the mantle.

It's not every day you see a political party official in a suit in a full-sprint. But Byler got the photo, just in time.

Also bumped into Virginia Beach Sheriff Ken Stolle and his wife at the event. We chatted briefly about his time in the Virginia Senate, some of the political folks he supported on the Peninsula and also his new gig running law and order in Virginia Beach.

As we parted ways, Stolle made quite the hilarious offer.

"'Come on by the jail," he deadpanned. "I'll show you around...and let you out."