For the record, yes, I suppose I should be at MORE city and county meetings. I should be at Sierra Club local activities and the planning meetings adding my voice and convincing through example and personal lobbying that the local group needn't buy into the national's car campaign rubbish. I should be at the auto show spilling my own real blood right on the fender of the Humvee, getting a citation for it (or worse), etc. I should do more. Much more.
Well, that's quite a few shoulds. So happens I attend more meetings than many; not saying I get a gold star for attending everything open to the public. I'm active (as in actually get up out of my chair and ride my bike across down in subzero weather and organize and work) in several organizations doing good deeds. I'm out there marching against this damnable Iraq war, here and in Washington, pulling my friends into action with me. ...And like everyone else I have a need to work for a living to buy groceries and pay the heat bill. With that salary I also donate generously to worthwhile organizations, including the Sierra Club. And, by the way, I did contact my county and city representatives on Transport 2020 (Tom Powell and Karen Cornwell). Al, honestly, please, does 5 or 10 or 25 public speakers at a county board meeting sway the vote on any issue the night of the vote? I hope that generally we elect people of serious intent who do their homework and have made up their minds already. For instance, would you change your vote, the night of same, because people show up to express their views on some non-green issue? If this is truly an effective method of changing votes, then let us hear all about it; I for one will show up more often. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
