Partisan politics

West U politics should be non-partisan. Can they be non-partisan? Depends on who you ask.

There is a website, www.instantnewsWestU.com. I have no idea how many people visit that site but there is a lot of chat activity there. It occurred to me that I was being offered free advertising to join in conversations.

I was happily blogging away on the restrictor issue when, out of the blue, I was being attacked for being dishonest. One of the bloggers went to facebook and discovered that I am a “very, very, very, liberal democrat.” Yes, I am a democrat. I don’t know how many “very’s" I rate.

My politics are no secret. Over the years I have had many yard signs in my yard. I don’t have any in my yard for this election. But in all the years I did have signs, I can think of only two republicans that I supported. Bob Fry and Bob Kelly.

For this election, I support both Fry (a republican) and Segal (a democrat). They are well qualified, decent, honest candidates. We will be well served no matter who becomes our mayor.

But back to the accusation that I am dishonest because I am a democrat. From what I can discern, the blogger who called me dishonest was upset because a true liberal could never be in favor of eliminating wasteful spending. Hence because I took a “conservative” stance on the restrictor issue while at the same time being a democrat I was by deduction, dishonest.

Go figure. You can't argue with logic like that.