Good news from the States!!
WARNING: Many of you will disagree with the sentiment that follows....if you´d rather not hear any more about how great it is to have less Republicans in office, please stop reading now.
Let me begin by saying YAY!!!!! Great to hear that you all are over there working hard to put a bit more blue back into the system....until we can go green, I´ll settle for blue ;)
I know what the campaigns can be like, and the work is frustrating and sometimes without reward. So a big thank you to all of you who I´m sure worked tirelessly is in order! I hope this will mean a more balanced and thoughtful government that can get its work done without trampling on the rights of the citizens it is meant to represent. And I truly hope we can start moving forward again instead of back.
But let us remember that our representatives are only as good as we make them....this means holding them accountable to their promises and platforms. It means being more than just citizens, but involved constituents. It means reminding those who say they stand for ¨equality¨ that same-sex marriage is an issue of equality, not something outside that realm, and that being ¨pro-enviroment¨ doesn´t just mean you reclycle.
I look forward to hearing more good news and am looking forward to better times. In the meantime, try to keep those slippery politicians in line ;) Hopefully next time I´m in abroad it will be less embarrassing to be American, and by the time I get home I´ll have something more to be proud of.
Great work, guys!!!
xoxo,
Lor
posted by Lor @ 5:34 AM
1 Comments:
Ditto on that one Lor. I was pleased that both our candidates won here in Mich - Granholm was re-elected as guv and Stabenow handily held her Senate seat. The truly embarassing part was that Michigan voters approved a proposition to ban use of affirmative action by universities and government. Pretty sad, and managed by a group that used deception to get petitions signed for the ballot (the court said fraud, but also that there was no law against fraud in getting issues on the ballot - a sad commentary on politics.)Anyway, there is a court challenge planned, so we'll see.
More on your other postings soon. I'm in China right now, where direct access to you blog is actually censored. I had to go by way of vpn back to my home computer in the states. Interesting.....
love you,
Dad
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