[Sosfbay-discuss] Connections

[Wes Rolley]

I spent a portion of the afternoon phone banking.  Calling people in my 
precinct to talk them into voting for Pete McCloskey rather than Richard 
Pombo.  The really gratifying thing was that so many thanked me for 
taking the time to actually have a conversation to them.  This included 
on self-described "bed rock Conservative" Republican who wants to put a 
big high voltage electric fence on the Mexican Border, and he still said 
"Thank your, I will give McCloskey another look."

Maybe this indicates that there is a lack of personal connection in 
politics.  That we are so attuned to wholesale politics of sound bytes 
and television ads that personal connection means something more.

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" Roberto Clemente

Wes Rolley
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