The thing is that two out of my four stellar representatives are moving on. One has decided to seek an at large seat on the county council--state legislature to county council, an odd choice. The other is running for governor. SO it's a feeding frenzy.
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There are 13 people running for these two seats. I've actually gone to their websites and watched their videos, read their platforms--there's not a dime's worth of difference between them.
I actually met Will Jawando at the White Oak Giant
today and stopped to chat. I asked him to tell me what he was most passionate
about. He started to ask me about myself, and I cut him off.
"It's not about me,
it's about what you want to accomplish," I said.
He started with universal pre-K
and increasing the daycare voucher system to allow disadvantaged children a
better leg up on school readiness and then talked about reforming our juvenile
justice system into one of rehabilitation and not just incarceration.
"There you go," I thought, "that wasn't too hard"--I like both of
those things. So I pushed and asked him to tell me how he planned to pay for them. And he did. And it
didn't raise taxes on the middle class or working poor.
Final thought, I liked
him. When I said that I didn't want to take up anymore of his time, he pressed
me to answer a few of his questions, what do I do, where do I live; fair enough
I thought.
Then he said, "I hope we'll get a chance to talk again sometime."
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