Commentary

Targeted by whom?

I was targeted on Veterans Day. Waking up that day I discovered two truck tires flat. It was lucky that it was a holiday or I’d have missed my morning school bus driving route. Examining […]

Commentary

Voting Against & No.

It’s midterm elections again in the USA and this year seems a repeat of 2018, 2010, 2006 and 1994, where the party of the Presidency gets voted out of the legislature. However, this is a […]

Commentary

Election Blockade for Democracy

I wrote the following in August of 2020 and have thought about it for longer. I obviously consider the US electoral system totally broken. That comes from my experience of working for the Green Party […]

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Money out of local politics!

Let’s face it, our democracy is broken! It’s been broken for a long time. The first Presidential election I could vote in was Gore vs. Bush, Gore won the popular vote and Bush stole the […]

Commentary

A little background…

How did I come to this moment choosing to run for Olympia city council? I was born in Kentucky, I came to Washington in 2003 to serve in the Americorps and, like most people, I […]

Olympia

City Council Campaign Issues

I’d prefer to frame it in the Rose, Thorn, Bud design thinking. The rose is: what’s good? The thorn is: what needs improvement? And the bud is: what are future opportunities? Rose The city of […]