Have been meaning to write to my Congressman, Adam Smith, so I did this morning. Nothing like cold icy weather to make me think. I put a stamp on the letter and will drop it off on my way out the door. As I was thinking about the expected non-response, it is about the 2nd Amendment after all, I considered running for his office in two years. And I looked up the qualifications, I meet them, and the entry fee, here it is one percent of the annual salary for the position - or, the signature of a registered voter for each dollar I can't afford to pay. Sounds like it could work.
He doesn't need to worry, I am not a public enough person, and a Congressperson needs to be comfortable in front of people and working crowds. Still, if this year is going to go strange and against what I believe, I may have to become what the Founding Fathers intended - an active motivated armed and concerned citizenry - politics is not a spectator sport, one must get out there and play the game... we count and it matters.
3 comments:
We need thinking people like you in office though and we have far too few of them!
You would have my vote! I'd know a moral, principled person was making the decisions.
I'd say Washington couldn't do better. The trouble with democracy is that only people who are desirous of power generally run for power, and they are usually the most corruptible and not the best to be in charge.
The less you want to be in office, the more the country needs you. Kind of a catch 22, but I'd love to see you blogging from your office in D.C.
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