This is written to you, and to everyone, including myself, who considers themselves an eligible voter in the United States of America. Thank you for opening this post. Perhaps most of us who can have already voted, or will vote today. Perhaps most who vote will have taken at least a little bit of time […]
I’ve tried to be clear in my support for President Obama for reelection. Here and here are two independent and supportive views about President Obama. October 15, 2012, my post about Mitt Romney included the following: “In the early months of this 2012 campaign season, I was really very neutral about Willard “Mitt” Romney…he seemed […]
The American people – of which you are one – decide their future on Tuesday, November 6. The choice has never been more stark, at all levels, in all states. If you are an ordinary person, as I am, and 98% or more of the American people are ordinary like me, you are well advised […]
(click to enlarge) Recently, after Sunday Mass at my Catholic Church in Minneapolis, I was visiting with a fellow usher, and the visiting Priest came by for a donut and coffee. My friend, like me a retired long-married man with children, asked the visiting Priest about the biblical history of the apparent injunction against homosexual […]
(click to enlarge) Playing frequently the last few days has been a 30 second commercial featuring seven supposed Minnesotans*, a grizzled military veteran, a farmer, a young mother, a young African American, a construction worker, an apparent homemaker, an apparent young voter…all urging an affirmative vote on the Voter Suppression amendment Nov. 6. How short-sighted […]
Jack Burgess is a friend, and in retirement a regular columnist. His self-description: “Jack Burgess is a retired Chillicothe [Ohio] teacher and former Executive Director of the Columbus [Ohio] Education Assn., as well as Chief of Arbitration Services in Ohio’s Office of Collective Bargaining.” The following commentary is long, but worth the time to read. […]
It doesn’t take close attention to notice that a prime Republican narrative in this election is anti-union, particularly public sector unions. Union hating is in. What are the Republicans afraid of? I spent most of my career – 27 years – representing teachers as an employee of the teacher’s union, first Minnesota Education Association (MEA), […]
A week from today the final voter will exit the polls somewhere in the United States and the 2012 election will be over except for the counting and the postmortems. Many of us have already voted. At this point few will change their minds. We are barraged by messages of all sorts from all directions. […]
click to enlarge photos The eleven of us who were the Twin Cities Franco-Fete Committee* on site Sep 28-30 are preparing to debrief this years event on November 15. This seems a good time to recognize the man whose vision and determination and passion led to Twin Cities Franco-Fete in the first place: Dr. Virgil […]
There is a clear choice in this years election: essentially we are choosing between a moderate Win-Win Democrat philosophy where all matter; or an increasingly extreme Republican faction where Winning is all that matters. “Exhibit A” are the two constitutional amendments on which we’re voting. Both were ramrodded through the 2012 Republican dominated legislature, ignoring […]