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Entries for February 17th, 2006

Cojones

It takes guts to run for political office against your boss. That must make things a little uncomfortable around the water cooler, don’t you think? I’m just thrilled there is someone else in the race. I’m not a big fan of Nancy Worley or Beth Chapman, so it’s nice to have an alternative.

Riser is Right

Volney Riser is right.

“Those who favor a constitutional convention will lose many more times before they win,” Volney said after he spent nearly an hour explaining issues that surround efforts to revamp the document. “We’ve got to have the right convergence of events.”

It will take the right convergence of events for a constitutional convention to happen, but no one can predict when that might be. It has already been a long road for those of us who support it, but we will get there one day.

  

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