This week, on their third try, politicians succeeded in delaying people’s right to decide the size of government. This delay will be brief. And along with everything else they’ve done, it will only serve to make citizens more determined to demand change.
Archive for October, 2008
PERSEVERE
October 31, 2008ONE DAY, AND ONE COURT, MORE
October 27, 2008On the eve of politicians’ final legal effort to stop citizens from deciding the size of their government, I’m determined, hopeful, and determined.
QUIET VICTORY; LASTING CHANGE
October 22, 2008These past few years, I often find myself in a town hall parking lot. It’s usually after a town board meeting ends, all the sound and fury subsides, and the once-crowed lot has emptied. I sit alone in my car, thinking about where our reform cause is, and where it’s headed.
WHY WE MUST FIGHT
October 1, 2008“How did it come to this,” I wondered as we filed court papers yesterday to ask a judge to order politicians to put our downsizing proposition on the November ballot in West Seneca.