Johnnymontana's blog: "Thoughts on the Sundry"

Ok, I have stayed out of the political fray here long enough and those of you who know my background can understand my frustration.  For those of you who might actually read this and are not aware of my past history, primarily because you have an aversion to reading profiles, I served in political office here for many years in various capacities.  I was non partisan and usually had the support of both political parties in some form. I got alot done and was finally voted out of office due to ...well apathy. Eight thousand registered voters in my district and 500 showed up...lost by 26 votes.  Then heard about it for months from people who wondered why I got beat.  When I asked them if they had voted they had some excuse about seeing the flowers growing across the street.  To be fair most people do not think about voting in a primary in September in a city election. The bad news is that because of that defeat people are now stuck in traffic jams on a few of the main thoroughfares in Missoula...MONTANA!!!!  We are not supposed to have traffic jams here....we have less people in the whole damn state than the population of metropolitan Salt Lake City!!! 

The on thing I learned in public office is if you tell the truth and try to get people involved in making decisions that effect them, you are going to be in big trouble....primarily from those you serve with because most have egos the size of the Eiffel Tower and hate those who rock the boat because they are not wearing a life preserver and will drown in their stupidity if confronted appropriately. The one thing most public officials know is that most of us do not have time to pay attention to anything other than wars and buildings getting hit by airplanes.  The days of reading the news are a thing of the past.  We get our information about the world around us in sound bites and small concise three sentence summaries.  A recent study done by the University of Southern California found that in medium income homes only 30% knew the name of their congressional representative.  We are busy watching kids, flowers and our body parts grow.  No time for that stuff. They all are a bunch of liars and thieves anyway.  Right??  

One of the reasons it is tough to get regular people to serve in elected office is that you have to raise alot of money and to do that, you have to promise to do the things the people with the money want.  If, like me, you say, I will make the best decisions I can and work hard depending on the circumstances, which is what we should want any elected official to do...you will watch as they put their checkbook away and wish you luck.  Usually a prescription for defeat unless you have your own money and can lie on tv ads in a way that cons people into believing what you are telling them, cause if you can't get them to read a profile here, do you really think anyone will check what you are telling them in a tv ad in a campaign.  I will answer that...no they won't. 

So for the next few days, as a person that does keep up with these things, and also cares about what happens to all of us, and as a public service, no I am not running for anything right now...in fact I am running FROM most things to be honest...anyway....as a public service I am going to talk about a few of the issues in the upcoming election.  Yes there is an election in a few weeks.  The first Tuesday in November.  It is everywhere because all members of the House are up for re election...and a third of the Senate is up for election too along with numer=ous positions in your state and local government depending on where you live.  I am not a Democrat nor a Republican.  I am a classic Independent...and think I have some common sense...do not ask the last person I was fu engaged to, who informed me that she wished I would quit talking about this stuff cause it was boring...clearly we were incompaitble intellectually...and I do not mean that in a bad way....yes I do..she didn't care about what was going on in the world and I did...not compatible.  Anyway I am going to talk about the absolutely retarded behavior I am observing on both sides of the political spectrum and try to help you make some sense out of the present state of our country and the world.  The one thing I can tell you is that there are some very bad and insane people who want to kill us whenever it is possible...men, women and children.  They think God wants them to do it....The problem is that our God whoever he or she is, has basically given us heat seeking missiles and night vision that can spot these jerks in their beds at night and zero in on them.....just ask Saddam's sons.  Well you can't, they are gone now to meet the real reward you get for being a jerk in this life whatever that is, but if that isn't enough there are economic concerns, corporations outsourcing jobs to countries where they only have to pay $.25 an hour and much more and I want to talk about it all. Hope you will come along for the ride and give some input along the way...will probably write it all week and into next week....see you tomorrow and we will talk about the political bickering in Washington....which is like being on the kindergarten playground most of the time...get your sandbox ready!!!