Religious Walker

It takes a real athlete with the feet to walk the doors on a day like today. 95 degrees in the shade. 100 degrees in the hot. A slight wind chill. But here I am walking my doors through the suburban forests in my district's neighborhoods. This is what all politicians should be doing on a perfectly humid August Day. On the beach in th elap of luxury, ok, you work hard, take a break. But make sure while you take that break that you look good in your bathing suit.

When last we spoke we were out west and Driven, who is walking his district and looking 35 pounds lighter from his playing weight back behind Jeff Blake at East Carolina back when they had a program, and lifting again to because as you loose weight, you lose need to build back muscle. So you get a new portrait made and make sure people know you didn't photoshp yourself beautiful a la catherine caker knoll or did she attend the charo and joan rivers school of home easy bake oven plasty.

Anyway, the weigh loss is not in the head, but in the entire length of tallness of body, so it cant really be photoshopped accurately even by the best false foto concocters.

Unless weekness of the head is a legislative condition that occassionally crops up and then has to be remedied by gritty PR work, that mostly is ignored by a legitimately good muckraking media.

But the media also needs to pay attention to what is right with the system for there is some good out there, just like Luke Skywalker foound some good in Darth Vader. It's the system we have, so we better make it work better, and some of those in the system do help make it work better, both staffers and members and leadership.

The powers that be get to be the way they get over the cycle of time, and evert once in a while there is a little adjustment to the system and everyone feels better about themselves, and then thing slowly revert to the way they were.

We cant let that happen if we are to truly save the system. Baby out with bathwater, love of politics out with the loving of it to death. Remember that anyone who gets elected has a new firs name, Member, and that they need to watch that they do not become a part of the system. There's a $26 billion pot out there of state money to dole out and its not getting any smaller at closer to 6 percent growth this year.

So that is a tantylizing pool of money for inexperience pols, not just once they get here, but from all the feeders out there, the lobbyists, the PACs, the HDCC and HRCC and SDCC and SRSS organizations that direct money skillfully like a horse handicapper allocating the days bets on a likely stable of horses...

But the number of horse races and fillies and mares and stablejockeys at the tracks from all over the spectrum and you've got yourseld some pains in the pockets.

Well, fortunately we have three months to play.

Anyway, sweat equity will win you a seat, and lose you a few pounds especially if you have a wife who cooks well for you. So back from the shore, get back to work, before labor day, the labor must begin.