Thursday, July 1, 2010

Campaign Log: Block Parties Could Help

Susan Booth may be part of the answer to her own question.

After I said I will not be taking political contributions, she wondered what the alternatives are, inasmuch as candidates have to get their names out if they are to be elected.

Susan is a precinct chair for the Democratic Party, and an ambitious one at that, considering throwing a block party and inviting the likes of gubernatorial candidate Peter Corroon.

Block parties are, indeed, one way for candidates to get their names out. Hopefully, Susan will invite me to her party.

In addition to meeting Susan, while campaigning on Darin and Torry circles, I met a man whose small business is being stretched by the economy. He wondered if this is the time for all the concrete walls to be going up on 13th and so much other road construction going on. "In a hard economy, you can't spend all your money keeping streets pretty," he said.

He was in favor of spending on education, however, which shows how deep some people feel about education. Even when they see the need to cut elsewhere, they say education should not be cut.

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