You can find all the reports you want about fundraising everywhere you look -- on the blogs, on your Facebook wall, in your Twitter feed, and even on your teevee and in the newspaper.
Bu that's really not the news.
Marianne Williamson is a motivational speaker and author running as an independent against one of California's most entrenched Democratic Congressmen. I'll be checking in with her campaign a lot, because she represents everything I look for in a potential elected official.
In other words, she is the polar opposite of someone like David Alameel.
So while the bloggers and political consultants rave and the media laps it all up -- and then vomits it out for you to lick up -- try to keep in mind that what we are experiencing at the moment is what eventually results in the wonderful set of circumstances our politics has become, in Austin and in Washington DC. And even at the county courthouse and at city hall.
Somebody ask Ben Hall or or Bill White or David Dewhurst or even Meg Whitman -- she of the $144 million dollar personal campaign budget -- how all that money they spent on their efforts for elective office worked out for them. And then ask yourself: how much better would things be if the richest man (or woman) had won?
That's how the 'experts' handicap races. They do it with baseball teams, too. And the Yankees don't win every year. How about that.
Wendy Davis is on pace (no matter how one counts it) to amass the fifty million dollars the talking heads said she had to raise in order to have a chance to beat "Wheelchair Ken". In other words, if she loses then she won't be able to say she couldn't raise enough money as an excuse.
I have contributed to her campaign, and I sincerely hope she doesn't lose. But I also don't see any deviation from a path we have trod for decades now, which shows not even the smallest sign of changing the kind of government we have. The one that gets bought and paid for every two years.
Bu that's really not the news.
Marianne Williamson is a motivational speaker and author running as an independent against one of California's most entrenched Democratic Congressmen. I'll be checking in with her campaign a lot, because she represents everything I look for in a potential elected official.
In other words, she is the polar opposite of someone like David Alameel.
So while the bloggers and political consultants rave and the media laps it all up -- and then vomits it out for you to lick up -- try to keep in mind that what we are experiencing at the moment is what eventually results in the wonderful set of circumstances our politics has become, in Austin and in Washington DC. And even at the county courthouse and at city hall.
Somebody ask Ben Hall or or Bill White or David Dewhurst or even Meg Whitman -- she of the $144 million dollar personal campaign budget -- how all that money they spent on their efforts for elective office worked out for them. And then ask yourself: how much better would things be if the richest man (or woman) had won?
That's how the 'experts' handicap races. They do it with baseball teams, too. And the Yankees don't win every year. How about that.
Wendy Davis is on pace (no matter how one counts it) to amass the fifty million dollars the talking heads said she had to raise in order to have a chance to beat "Wheelchair Ken". In other words, if she loses then she won't be able to say she couldn't raise enough money as an excuse.
I have contributed to her campaign, and I sincerely hope she doesn't lose. But I also don't see any deviation from a path we have trod for decades now, which shows not even the smallest sign of changing the kind of government we have. The one that gets bought and paid for every two years.
"wheelchair Ken"? ohhh you are such a vial and vulgar blogger. :)
ReplyDeleteAs I mention on my blog, this is nothing new.
ReplyDeleteFour short years ago, Bill White outraised Rick Perry during part of their campaign cycle, and we know the Election Day results.
I need to link yours, Gadfly, in the original (and "Wheelchair Ken", also.) I'll do that as soon as I finish this.
ReplyDeleteI linked back to yours, in my fundraising piece, because you mentioned people I hadn't thought of. Wanted to do that separately from the "who is Alameel" one.
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