Local politics and reality
The first week of the election campaign has concluded. With 14 people competing for seven places it’s going to be a tight contest.
Matters became a bit personal for me during the week when two candidates implied through the newspaper that I couldn’t be trusted to fairly edit the Community Forum web site. It was a rather nasty thing to say. My focus has been to release policy ideas, not to attack others, but now I find that I have to defend myself. Such is politics, I suppose.
One thing I’ve discovered is that candidates talking among themselves have a distorted view of the issues and the electorate. It’s reassuring to learn from people on the street that they don’t know or care about the petty backroom machinations.
I coined a phrase, which if I were someone famous, would probably end up in a book of quotations:
These articles might be of interest:Politicians and voters are like different planets orbiting the same sun. They share some energy, but breathe different air.
“Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, politicians should go to Pluto.”