The bumperstickers that have my conservative hubby freaked out *g*

Some of them mom put on there, most of the rest Dad had bought and then passed off to me along with the car. (Can you tell she was a teacher? :) )

:-)

we still have dad and he seems to finally be healing from his surgery and post-op infection.

loves the shiny one. :)

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"this is MY car, never mind that I can't drive it yet. You don't want to be seen with these stickers then get back in the Explorer"

His latest gripe today was that once I learn to drive I will regret the stickers because people will tailgate me in order to read them. Hadn't thought of that before, actually.

Apart from braking for leprechauns, that is!
And how do you live with someone who thinks so differently to you and your family? (Don't get mad - it's not an insult, I would find it hard)

not talking religion and politics. (Although now and then we break the rule and he surprises me... as he did with Terri Schiavo. He swears he won't put me through that if it should ever happen to me.)

But in most other ways we are enough alike and have enough common interests as far as past times that we rub along nicely.

Plus, it doesn't hurt that we are crazy about each other! :D

Did you hear Kucinich this morning on AAR?

until it was too late. *pouting*

that Kucinich sticker. I still have mine on my truck and it is cause for some interesting conversations here in Kansas. The one and only time I was ever interviewed on TV the people who were there from the station all saw my sticker and now I run into them all over the place and they all remember me. There is no other reason they would but they had all commented on it and thought it was really cool though it was unusual in these parts.

Those are great stickers, I really like the one about Pentagon spending and the one about ignorance. Your mom was as cool.

stand out as the only one around. I can't imagine it. (Not the only Greens sticker either, for that matter)

Were you interviewed because of the sticker? :)

I was working for the Vote No campaign against the Phelps ballot initiative and I was the volunteer staff person who was chosen as spokesperson. It was scary and creepy because I had to stand next to the group voting for the initiative (not the Phelps group) and they were so nasty feeling. Anyway, I drove up in my truck because they filmed us outside the courthouse and they all noticed it. I wish there were more but I do not mind being a bit lonely, in Kansas you have to be used to it. We got delegates to the second stage of our caucus so I wasn't all by myself. I enjoy my oddness so it doesn't matter to me personally but it is difficult that there are not more.

the "Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" people can be freaky. :( Used to see them all the time at our AIDS awareness marches when I was in college in the early 90s.

Maybe you will find the area growing more progressive as time passes? I can remember when Maine was staunchly (moderate) Repub, but now we are staunchly moderate to liberal/progressive. In some counties at an rate. :)

but the fundies have moved in and are very very strong right now. It is tough but I have joined up with some very worthwile groups fighting for issues that are progressive. We are small but we are not going away. It is tough and nasty.

your enemies might even be your friends on getting at least some of them instituted at municipal and state levels.

have contacted out sec of state and he refuses to answer any questions. We spent hours on this and got no response at all. You would have thought that we were not Kansas voters since we apparently do not rate answers to our questions. We were even nice about it, started slowly and brought it up in small ways. Nothing from him, then we got angry and still got no answers. It is like pulling teeth here if you are not a republican, no one answers, no one meets with you, no one cares one little bit what you think. It really is like living in the wilderness but we keep on. Nothing like being treated like a nonentity to make a person an activist! We have both become involved in different ways. This is what it takes to change things.

If you can win over your city council or mayor or whomever that say, ranked ballots are better, then it's a start. But even then it's an uphill battle.

back about all of this. It is so frustrating and so many people who live in other areas do not understand. We just lost our city council, I worked for one of the ousted council members and the new mayor I have no confidence in as at all progressive. My husband just joined a mayors council clean up the city team so maybe there will be something there, at least he is getting to know him. We do what we can.

they try to get rid of the town manager position.

All nice enough folks, but so far no dice on making changes to our election system.

In our favor, though, being a small town means pencil and paper at every voting booth.

I hope you can make progress with your new mayor. Even conservatives are willing to sign on to some election reforms if they are interested in cleaning up the government. It's the ones who are tied to big business that dig their heels in the dirt over it.

we do have a city council but we lost all the progressive seats. It was vote them all out day I think. We just started the "weaker mayor" type of government with a city manager but we do not have one yet, looking. I am not in the city limits so I am a bit out of the loop and really have not cared very much until it became imperative that others do something so I dove in.

You know, now that I think about it this mayor just may be all about cleaning up the government. I just do not know what that would mean to him. You can bet I am going to find out though!

we lost the Hill.

Well, see if there is anything on my site's election reforms page that might interest him. I think at the municipal level there would be only so much that could be done, but still it would be a start. :)

If we could get him to talk about it. My take on this guy is probably not as informed as it should be but he is conservative and a real stickler for saving money and not spending any more than needs to be spent. That is what Kansans are all about. We pour concrete over flowers to save on water and so on and so on. However, election reform might just be right up his alley. I really appreciate your help, we are really getting plowed under here.

Edit I just bookmarked your site. Very nice. I will go through it when I get home later and make notes. Again, thanks.

goes Blue some of us will be dead from the exertion but it will have been worth it. Just do not hold your breath, we are sinking quickly.

I did in the primaries!

Mine said "It will be great day when schools have all the money they need and the Pentagon has to hold a bake sale to buy a tank."