Very sad. It goes on in every town. Even our little one. The in-crowd blocks the outsiders at every turn until enough of the citizens rise up and do their job. The outsider has to spend enormous amounts of time, energy and money to get his point across to the other citizens.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Some scary events in Republican party > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Which makes him a weak kneed politician. > > This is redundant. > >> No commitment to truth and honor. > > This is the definition of a politician. > >> Are we to bow down to the few nuts just to get their votes... > > But this is what a politician *does.* > > I am not merely being flippant here. I have history. I was the > lowest-level politician ever, elected to our small town (pop. 900) > city council. There were issues I was concerned about, and made the > case for them well enough to get elected. While in office, I learned > of some other unsavory stuff going on by members of our town's most > powerful group. My daring to merely question their actions made me > their Public Enemy #1. I didn't succeed in restoring balance to these > issues in my first term, as 3/5 council members were in their "bloc." > > I really wanted to finish the job, and I thought that there was a good > possibility that a new council member that was not-of-their-block > would get elected. I would never get reelected with the big bloc > solidly against me unless I pandered to another group by fudging a > couple of my positions. Not to sound self-righteous, because I was > really sick of the Council and chose not to run for reelection. But if > I had, it was really tempting to pander a bit. It was an easy > rationalization to fudge "so I could finish the job." > > Ken > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7F550E9467AA4B01BB66C073CB59140F@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
