Tuesday, April 12, 2005
I didn't know being politically active would be so much fun!
I'm on a bunch of mailing lists, which is not uncommon for anyone who ever signed an on-line petition. One of my favorites comes from Ken Gordon, the majority leader in our Colorado State Senate. Today's mailing started out like this:
"Today, during debate on the Senate floor, one of the Senators, in trying to say that the need for her bill should be apparent, said,
“This isn’t rocket surgery."
Senator Isgar told me that this reminded him of a saying in southwest Colorado. When the question came up if someone was a rocket scientist, they would say,
“He’s more of a rocket handyman.”
He also has good ideas for getting more attention from the media:
"Last week I won an award from a group called “Leave No One Behind.” This group formed to work for less conflict and more cooperation in politics. I came to their attention because of my attempt to allow Republicans to be vice-chairs of committees.
They gave me their “Inclusiveness Award” because of this idea and my other work to reduce conflict in the Senate, although the rest of leadership deserve credit for this as well.
They were apologetic that very little media showed up at the ceremony. I wasn’t surprised though. Taking into consideration the attraction that conflict has for the press, I told them that we might have gotten more attention if we had advertised “non-partisan, inclusive mud-wrestling.”
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The main point of the mailing was to encourage people to contact their Senators and ask them to support a bill for open and verified voting. It gives me a good feeling first thing in the morning to know that such an important cause is in competent and cheerfully hard-working hands.
"Today, during debate on the Senate floor, one of the Senators, in trying to say that the need for her bill should be apparent, said,
“This isn’t rocket surgery."
Senator Isgar told me that this reminded him of a saying in southwest Colorado. When the question came up if someone was a rocket scientist, they would say,
“He’s more of a rocket handyman.”
He also has good ideas for getting more attention from the media:
"Last week I won an award from a group called “Leave No One Behind.” This group formed to work for less conflict and more cooperation in politics. I came to their attention because of my attempt to allow Republicans to be vice-chairs of committees.
They gave me their “Inclusiveness Award” because of this idea and my other work to reduce conflict in the Senate, although the rest of leadership deserve credit for this as well.
They were apologetic that very little media showed up at the ceremony. I wasn’t surprised though. Taking into consideration the attraction that conflict has for the press, I told them that we might have gotten more attention if we had advertised “non-partisan, inclusive mud-wrestling.”
***
The main point of the mailing was to encourage people to contact their Senators and ask them to support a bill for open and verified voting. It gives me a good feeling first thing in the morning to know that such an important cause is in competent and cheerfully hard-working hands.
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