A big battle in the war that Martin Luther King led in the fifties and sixties is the one at the voting machines in November 2014. If large numbers of folks who support equality of rights, peace, and economic justice stay home as they did in 2010, then the angry minority on the right will capture the US Senate, as they have already the House and state legislatures, and the Tea-Party types will stymie our nation more completely. We will continue to win in Presidential years, I believe, but if we let the Congress remain in the hands of the minority then progress will be painfully slow and some gains actually lost.
I marched with several hundred folks in honor of Dr. King's principles down Broad Street in Rome this morning. We sang those songs of peaceful defiance. But if we stay home from the polls in November, we will show ourselves hypocrites to King's cause. Go vote and agitate at least ten of the complacent midterm stay-at-homes of 2010 to GO VOTE in 2014!
We have ten months (and only four months till the primary) to DO SOMETHING or see another Millionaires' Midterm. (The Koch brothers and company are already busy trying to buy every competitive senate race.)
End of sermon.
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Laurie Craw
Ahem, Brother Shaw.
Terrell Shaw
Why are you clearing your throat at me, Laurie Craw?
Laurie Craw
Because I just got back from Atlanta and can't type straight...Make that "aMEN, Brother Terrell." This is why we need proofreaders....
Terrell Shaw
I figured it out. Is sam all settled in?
Laurie Craw
Well, almost. Steve framed the soundproofing installation but the glue needed to dry before hanging. Got other things done but still a few to do. Ain't that always the way with homes
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