Impulse

I just got a call from Senator John Kerry. A for­mer US pres­i­den­tial can­di­date called me on the phone, out of the blue. Well, a record­ing of him, any­way. He, or rather his sen­a­to­r­ial tape player, told me to vote not on Washington state ini­tia­tive 330.

Boy those Dems have sure got­ten them­selves orga­nized. This year I’ve seen more national polit­i­cal fig­ures weigh­ing in on local pol­i­tics than any year I can remem­ber. MoveOn has been all over local elec­tions in any state with more than two democ­rats in it. Can’t say I like national polit­i­cal com­mit­tees and New England sen­a­tors muck­ing about in a state ini­tia­tive, but I’ll take some orga­ni­za­tion over no orga­ni­za­tion. If they can mobi­lize peo­ple for a local elec­tion, they just may have a chance at mobi­liz­ing peo­ple at a national level.
Of course, hav­ing John Kerry’s voice­mail call me doesn’t make me want to vote the party line. In fact, it almost back­fired: as a rule, I like to oppose any posi­tion put forth by a cold-caller. Luckily, I haven’t read the ini­tia­tive yet, so I haven’t formed an opin­ion. (How about that: ratio­nal­ism saved by ignorance).

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