Politics

Straight talk is hard to come by... especially when dealing with politics. No one answer can be the right answer, but the right answer cannot be the one answer. I recently invited two Bexar county political candidates that are running for election this term, one for judge, and the other for constable (whose names will remain anonymous for now) to sit down with myself and a co host, and conduct an interview regarding some social issues that citizens of the community want addressed, and resolved. I didn't think it was asking too much, all of the questions were going to be given to the candidates beforehand, and they were going to be given sufficient time to practice and rehearse their responses. Ironically, when contacted for the interview one of the candidates declined time and time again to pick up his phone, or return phone calls after numerous attempts in lieu of vibrant messages left on his voice mail, and the other who is a female must be suffering from that same set of symptoms, but maybe in a more worse condition, because at a fairly recent communications committee meeting when I extended my hand for a genuine handshake the lady candidate was reluctant to shake it, as if I had leprosy. I'm not really a political guy... don't really see myself running for political office (well maybe), but I'm like most Americans... I just want straight talk with real answers. Now if you are camera shy ok, or not so good at public speaking that's fine, even if a person is absolutely clueless about a plan to change, alter, and fix a broken issue that lies deep in a community chanting to be addressed, these are all understandable concerns of why a person wouldn't want to put themselves out there in the spot light like that, (although Sarah Palin did a tremendous job in proving this theory absolutely wrong) but if the reason is that you are plainly trying to beat around the bush until election time comes up hoping the American PEOPLE will simply forget about their concerns, and just go out and vote, in my opinion one is sadly mistaken. It’s about more than attending the local fundraisers, meeting and greeting the elite groups in the city, or hanging signs up around the city and claiming to have a presence in the community. It’s more about having a sense of the little guy in the room, and wanting to know, and learn that person’s views, thoughts, and mind set surrounding an issue.

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