Matt, You have my respect and when/if you decide to run, my vote! If you have a drawback, it would be that you make too much sense.......

Oh, I thought you were referring to this blog. You guys really do need to sit down for a few hours over coffee. On local issues, you probably have more in common than you realize. At bare minimum, you both care about the community.

BIGJ, which of Matt's statements in particular are you referring to?

speechfree: "Trust me if your agenda had the support of the majority of the electorate I would be doing like I did for the previous eight year term cringing during the news to reports of abu ghraib prison photos, no bid contracts to Halliburton, or mission accomplished banners with prayer not mixing diesel fuel and fertilizer."

If you're suggesting my "agenda" somehow equates to the Bush/GOP agenda, you misunderstand my position COMPLETELY. If my Constitutionalist platform had the support of the majority, power would be returned to the people and taken away from the imperialist-corporatist bureaucracy that has ruled over us for decades AND the next 3-7 years, etc, etc.

democracy = tyranny of the majority

By the way, what happened to the anti-war Left I used to relate to? Sleeping the sleep of the prematurely appeased, I presume. Not much unlike the fiscal conservatives that fell back to sleep in 2000-2008, culminating with a $700B+ corporate bailout. So many lessons, so few lesson learners.

Have you ever tried to talk to your congressman ? I assure you his ear will be readily available. Make your argument and persuade freely. If you can achieve a plurality we play by your paradigm otherwise if persuasion fails then the reverse. The use of revolution is the last resort of those whose positions do not carry in a democracy and who can not accept being the loyal opposition. Trust me if your agenda had the support of the majority of the electorate I would be doing like I did for the previous eight year term cringing during the news to reports of abu ghraib prison photos, no bid contracts to Halliburton, or mission accomplished banners with prayer not mixing diesel fuel and fertilizer.

Matt, will Atlas Shrugged come to pass?

speechfree is intentionally blurring the levels of power in an attempt to confuse the acceptable justifications for building roads or funding local schools BY the people of a voluntarily-incorporated town with the fictitious need for taxation without representation at the highest levels of government. He doesn't seem concerned that those in power are creating unelected & unaccountable super-national power structures even further beyond his reproach. This type of willful ignorance has landed many a prole in the gulag.

He's already outed himself as a police state apologist/denier:
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/weblo...

MattOcker wrote :
I just wonder how much you can take from the productive to give to the unproductive, before there is sufficient revolution.

I am going to explain this like I explained it to an adult child [still a teen] living at home why he had to contribute to the house hold from his "independent" production. The cloths on your back,roof,car, gasoline, utilities that he consumed freely were in fact not free[ the small rent was just to teach responsibility]. To those so called productive folks who had government sponsored education, whose company trucks uses public roads, and who prosper from the labor force educated, medicated, public transportation supported to get to work-- employee who brings you profits did not fall out of the sky from some magic daddy in Washington you got to pitch into the household.

God help us all

Yeah but we are going to get our way though.

Seeing how the Democrat’s handled this matter in Massachusetts,just shows the moral and ethical bankruptcy of the party.