This past week in local East Tennessee politics sort of has my head squirming around. I got really sad for a while because Matthew Hill beat Todd Smith out for the 7th District House seat. Then I got really happy for a while because Phil Roe beat David Davis for the 1st Congressional District seat.
From what I can tell there is no Democrat to oppose Matthew Hill in the general election so... well... he's going back to Nashville where my tax dollars help pay him to Carry My Vision. Matthew I'm not even 100% sure what my vision is but when I find it I'm not going to let you carry it to Nashville. I'm going to keep it right here in Johnson City with me. I probably wouldn't give a hoot about you until I heard you did your radio show from The Creation Museum in Kentucky. If you are into the creationism stuff, have at it because I love opinions. If not, then my heathern brothers let that sink in. My elected official did a radio show from the Creation Museum. I don't want him anywhere near a legislative branch of any government that collects tax dollars from me. The Flintstones were a cartoon, but I'm totally going to Kentucky one day and have my picture taken riding old Dino there and mail it to Matthew. Maybe he'll hang it in his office. That'd be great.Now on to Roe vs. Davis. I don't really have anything against David Davis except that his stupid campaign commercials made me feel guilty for not going to church. Actually I do have a few things against him, he comes off as this creepy right wing nut bag even though I don't particularly have anything against people on the right (or the left) except when they reach nut bag territory. Oh and Matthew's brother Timmy Timmy Two Step worked for him, tried his mad haxor skillz on Wikipedia and then got a $8,000 bonus from Davis when he got caught. So I'm not sad to see David Davis lose. But now I'm wondering what we actually won? Phil Roe? What is he really going to do? His entire campaign was based off the fact that he wasn't David Davis. I live in Johnson City and got all his silly mailings. The ones with the cute old lady on them standing in front of gas pumps. Because we all know that gas is nearly $4 a gallon here in the hills because Davis took money from an oil company. My guess is that all Roe is going to do is vote the party line which I don't usually agree with... even David Davis can do that. At least there is a contender against Roe in the general election. Rob Russell.
Yes the Rob Russell & The Sore Losers Rob Russell. Does he stand a chance? Not sure. But that is going to be a hard road to win a seat as a Democrat that has been in Republican hands for over 100 years. Personally I'd love to see Rob Russell win. I'm not a fan at all of his music, so thats not it. I'd just like to see someone who doesn't appear to be looking for a career in politics head to D.C. Why not? I mean those guys usually just vote along party lines anyway and usually after getting a 5 minute briefing on what they are going to be voting on from some staffer who is probably smarter than the elected official anyway.
What I'd like to see is true representative government. These days politicians get elected because they have tons of dough, and a lot of connections to people who want people in power to do their bidding and keep them rich and white. Once the person elected gets in office they just vote however they hell they want to (or how their party tells them to) and really don't give a rats ass about the people back home. So what if I ran for office, but only as a figurehead. I'll setup a big fat website where the people I represent can weigh in on the things that are to be voted on. What they say goes even if it is something I'm totally against. I actually think something like that could work.
Update: Looks like David Davis is whining about his loss. Who is to blame? Not him of course... it was the Democrats! The Democrats, it turns out, ARE to blame for EVERYTHING!
Big ups to my man Williac for the dino pic. He was brave enough to go to the Creation Museum once.
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