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Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 11:28 PM by TayTay
He is the kind of person who likes to be doing. (All that energy, he's always in motion. ADHD, we used to joke here.) And where does all that nervous energy go when people are in so much trouble?
I know in a prior hurricane he heard about a 'felt need' on the floor of the Senate, made a phone call in the Dem cloak room and had two FedEx planes on the way for supply purposes. (Went to school with the guy who founded FedEx.) I have no idea what is going on behind the scenes, both to get needed aid into the area and to start to form that mighty fist to smack these bastards down. But I know it's happening.
It's so awful to be an elected official and have to make cut after cut after cut to programs you believe in. It just so completely sucks the life out of you. In my teensy world, we had to do this to local school programs and it just is devastating. No one runs for elected office to dismantle needed programs. I just hope and pray that the chance to do something uplifting and positive happens for all the Dems, inlcuding John Kerry. It's what they actually ran for and to support. It's why they put up with being smeared by the Rethugs bastards. It's why they are still there when they could have hung it up. Because they still have to believe they can hold on and still make a difference. But it hurts the heart.
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