Some of my detractors told me, in person, recently that "I make them look bad and they plan to meet with the editors of the Whittier Daily News to stop articles written about or mentioning me". My response: Who the hell are you?.
They assumed that I requested the article, which is wholly untrue and even if it were true, so what. "It should have been on someone else who deserves it", they say. OK!
If these people actually stood for something and were truly concerned about their community, they would get off their derrieres and work with real people outside of their elitist debauch soirees'.
I believe that everyone is entitled to their opinion, but people who force their idea of detachment (from people and issues) in politics are really barking up the wrong tree here. I have a social-political responsibility (contract) to my community and I strive to nurture my relationship with it, as a way of life. So my polite advice is either stand for something or sit down and shut up.
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The article... nearest my heart is the division of counties into wards ... should they become corrupt and perverted, the division into wards constituting the people, in their wards, a regularly organized power, enables them by that organization to crush, regularly and peaceably, the usurpations of their unfaithful agents, and rescues them from the dreadful necessity of doing it insurrectionally. In this way we shall be as republican as a large society can be, and secure the continuance of purity in our government by the salutary, peaceable, and regular control of the people." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:70
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