Politics, Local style

Politicians.  They deliver their spiels and promise the world and how things will be better if you just vote for them.  They lean left.  They lean right.  Some are wise in the ways of the political game.  Some are not as wise but hopeful and work hard to honestly give their all as they somehow are seen at every function, getting their name to match a face online.

Then there are the supporters behind the scenes.  Running the phone banks, putting out the signs, arranging the fund raisers and the meet and greets.  Small town politics are an entity like no other.  The letters to the editor, the sudden scandal, all add to the flavor of the spring primaries.  Ours are next week.  School boards, commissioners, township folks, even judges and recorders of wills.

While most of the country is making a recovery, slow and steady, and the attention is on the big boys and girls getting into the race early, hundreds of small counties like ours, will be casting the vote to make things better.  To bring living wages into an area by bringing in businesses that will offer more than a minimum wage.

Keeping the funding for the schools while lowering property taxes to free up money that will stimulate the local economy are issues are our minds.

I'll be voting to clean house.  The dust has been settling for too long and it's time for a change, time to let new faces tackle the status quo.  They have come to love this area, and I don't believe they will just settle.  Like the good ole boys in office now.

Come election morning I will go to the polls and cast my vote for change.  For the future.