Posted by Racer on March 20, 2006, at 23:19:51
Tonight, in our complex, we had a candidate for City Council come to talk to us about why we should vote for him. That is, that's what he wanted to talk about... :-D
The first question I asked was about how he would plan to provide incentives for small, locally owned businesses to stick around during the current redevelopment of our area. His response was pretty much what I expected: "That's so important, yaddida yaddida" with zero zip nada about how he thought that would work. No actual plans. He did speak, mostly, about the things that people in the room seemed concerned with, adjusting topics to stay with what was on people's radar. (Although a couple of questions did kinda go past him.)
And I thought to myself, "This is a political animal. This is a big-P Politician." (He's coming back to local politics from state office.)
But you know what? I realized I don't mind that. In fact, I want a Politician, because I want someone who has experience, who has the connections made, someone who can do the back office finagling. Someone who can get the job done.
I think I'm getting old...
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