I'm heading out of Tennessee. It's a beautiful state, like the weather, the progressives here are smart and hard-core. They've welcomed me in and encouraged me to do something
BIG!
If these smart, funny, great people think I can do it, who am I to say otherwise?
I'm going home to Colorado. Back to the little town where I finished High School, where I met and dated my sweetheart, now husband.
I'm going back with a fire in my gut and righteous anger I can barely contain.
Marilyn Musgrave has hi-jacked my town! She is a good representation of what happens when we let James Dobson out of the looney bin. Focus on the Family had a clever plot to infiltrate local school boards with their cult-like minions. Once entrenched, they behave much like a retro-virus, which mutates the host cell. She was elected to the school board in my county. Within a year or two, she'd turned it into wing-nut central!
She'd had enough of that and needed a spotlight, so Dobson and FOF got her elected US Representive to Congress!
The eastern plains of Colorado, is primarily farm company. Family farms are homesteads passed down through generations and split among the eldest boys. They are being eaten by huge corporate farms. Don't be fooled, most of the farm subsidy is going to the people you already know...not the farmers. On top of this, we had several seasons of severe draught! So much so, that pasture land in the summer couldn't grow enough to provide for horses, hay didn't do well either. Finally people started buying hay to feed all year round from guys in Kansas who had plenty--for the right price.
So people of east Colorado are suffering, their town is all but dead now. They have meth labs at all the trailers out in the fields. Kids are drinking, drugging, having sex and making babies. Meanwhile, good business men are wheeling and dealing to make sure that mountain run off goes to water fairways in Arizona. Owned by the big guys, whose names you know.
So what does the distinguished Congresswoman from E. Colorado have to say about all this?
Protect Marriage! Yep! That's right! The threat to our marriages and families must be because gay people who love eachother want to get married and then men will not have exclusive ownership rights to women, and then women could find out they're happier that way and then what we most fear will be revealed to us..............we were never entitled in the first place!!!!!BWAAAAAAAAA(Dobson cries)
But, back to me. Serious problems like these need to be handled by a serious person. The Focus on the Family freashow is anything but.
I think I can beat her. I don't have a lot of time, I've made some "contributor" friends here. I think I may have a campaign manager....I can't believe I'm saying this out loud. I went running away from that little town when I gradeeated, and never stopped. Now, I'm considering going back and becoming of all things, a politician????
I was listening to her speak, I read her web-site, I listened to what Dobson had to say about her.....I really think I can do it!
Any suggestions? Any grassroots organizers? Seriously, I'd be greatful for wise counsel, obviously, I've lost my mind and am running out.