Howard Dean, whose national Democratic party chairmanship created the political network that first elected President Obama (for which Dean got no credit), is now trying to get Democrats involved in very local politics. That is where you can take the starch out of the Teabaggers. I just want to add that it can be done.
About 12 years ago, some of us noticed that our small town had a majority of Democratic voters but a Republican city council that refused to take up any issue that might annoy George W. Bush. We set out to change the situation by finding better candidates and supporting them through volunteers from our peace vigil and the local unofficial Democratic club. The hardest part was getting rational people to run for office. Anyway, 12 years later, last night, the city council voted 4-1 to support a proposed federal bill that will ban guns resembling assault weapons and ban large capacity magazines. The only one to vote against lending support to sanity was Council member Gary Plass, an out-of-touch Republican functionary. He gave his usual reason: "We were hired to keep the water running and the sewer going, and that's what we should do. It (anything of national concern to local citizens) does not belong on this dias." Somehow he has missed why we elected the other four council members. Apparently Gary Plass believes he's still surrounded by obedient Bushniks.
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