Gee, government harrassing citizens!
As I said in this post, I spent this past weekend with other bloggers of like mind - free markets, limited government, enhancing choices (and thus expanding our freedom). Well, since we were from all over the country, there were a lot of stories about how our elected officials sometimes believe that holding onto power is heads and tails over serving the public needs and wants (you know the type, those that somehow that get the notion into their DNA that THEY know best and watch out if you are one that wish to disabuse them of that notion!).
Well, from Michigan, here's another sorry tale of elected officials acting badly when someone wants to hold them accountable within the legal structure. Both RedState and Publius Forum picked up on the story about the Michigan Speaker of the House (a Democrat) Andy Dillon using union thugs to harass citizens trying to use the legal ways to protest (hey, aren't Dems all about "protest as patriotic - such hypocrites!):
Yeah, I know - is this seemingly like the Democratic brouhaha going on if their Delegates to the Democratic Convention? Once again, I just don't seem to get it - the rules are made, you show disdain and disobey the rules, and you get upset? The claim is that
Look, GraniteGrok does a lot of local, state, AND national news on politics. But these are two great examples as to why we quote the late Tip O'Neil on Meet The New Press: all politics is local. Yet, this shows that while the names and the places may not be the same, or even be far, far away, we ALL have to deal with this nonsense. That's why, we're going to start shining a flashlight when we see stupidity being reported in the blogosphere. After all, it CAN and DOES happen here too!
And like the flip side of a coin, if we hear of someone in another place that wants to effect change according to the principles I enumerated above, we're going to show a little bit of blog love their way.
With that in mind, check out Chris Hackett, running to unseat a very liberal guy in Pennsylvania. A conservative:
Chris Hackett, unlike his opponent, knows how tax cuts and tax hikes, spending cuts and spending hikes, and regulation and deregulation affect small businesses. We need people with real world experience in Washington. We need people like Chris Hackett in Washington.
