Saturday, March 27, 2010

Local Politics

"All politics is local." quoth Tip O'Neil, a famous, and now deceased threat to national security back in the 80s. He had a point. No matter how far you think the national capitol is from you, what they do there can directly affect you, your job, your inclom, and everything else.

Today, however, we have really local politics. My state house rep, has an opponent.

Background: My current rep got elected to the house in the Democratic sweep of 2006, in a district that is not all that liberal. He's been raising taxes, finding more spending, and telling us he's a very conservative democrat in the town hall meetings.

His opponent is Kathleen Conti, who has never held office before, but, like a lot of us, is fed up. I met her at Liberty on the Rocks, a get-together of libertarian-minded folks out in Lakewood. She is a conservative-type Republican, and has an interest in restraining taxation and spending that's been the hallmark of the Dems running the state in recent years.

Click on her name, visit her site, and see if you can spare a few bucks for the cause. I did.

2 comments:

jed said...

I heard about this group last year, at the big rally at the capitol. Is there someplace one can go to get a simple listing of events, without having to dig through a morass of broken links, cluttered pages, and facebook and/or meetup sites?

Billll said...

I got on their notification list some time back, I'm not sure how. I notice there's no obvious way to get on it from their website, either the new one (.org) or the old one (.com). The old one has a bit more info on it. They announce:
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We meet the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month at Old Chicago, 145 Union Blvd., Lakewood, on the rooftop patio. Happy hour prices on food and drinks are extended till 7 p.m. for our group. Typically, many in the group stay till 9 p.m. or later - so don't worry if you're running late.

Remember, we are a family friendly group and many non-drinkers come for the food, non-alcoholic beverages, and fun in the sun.
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If you make it to one of their get-togethers, you can probably get on to the notification list without having to join facebook and become a card-carrying member.