Just from my campaign, I can see that quite a few citizens are attuned to what's going on at City Hall. Mayor Jim Ferrell has been getting mostly positive reviews from citizens that I speak to, and one woman, who is actively involved in trying to relieve homelessness, said that the mayor is sincerely trying to help the homeless. That says a lot favorable about the mayor, even though a Mirror columnist, who wrote about homelessness recently, wasn't nearly as enthusiastic about City Hall's concern, but I think both the woman and the columnist make good points as they both want humanitarian responses to poverty, although they may have different ways of approaching it.
Speaking of newspapers, I don't trust them at all. They have their role when it comes to politics, but I think citizens should not let editorializing be as influential as it often is, especially in elections. A small circle of people at a newspaper saying who they like or don't like should be little more influential, if at all, than a small circle of your friends and acquaintances sitting around a table. Yes, newspaper people, as their job necessitates, obviously pay more attention to politics than lay people, on the whole, but they have acute biases that often, and sometimes regularly, show up in non-editorial content. People who want to make good political choices in elections should realize that. Remember, newspapers and media, in general, are owned by corporations, many of which are not particularly friendly to commoners, or politicians/candidates who pay heed to the needs and desires of commoners more than to special interests.
Of course, expedience demands that I cooperate with the media to some extent, but my natural instinct and experience knows all too well that the media is generally not friendly to those, like me, who more often than not don't go along with Establishment/Big Money interests.
Future post: Beware of so-called election rating specialists, and I probably won't be sitting down with the King County Municipal League, again, anytime soon, if ever. I'll be writing about this on Council.
Past post: I made a few revisions, today, to "First Official Opponent Files with PDC."
-- Mark Greene, candidate for Federal Way City Council (Position 1)
[revised on 3/10/15]
Speaking of newspapers, I don't trust them at all. They have their role when it comes to politics, but I think citizens should not let editorializing be as influential as it often is, especially in elections. A small circle of people at a newspaper saying who they like or don't like should be little more influential, if at all, than a small circle of your friends and acquaintances sitting around a table. Yes, newspaper people, as their job necessitates, obviously pay more attention to politics than lay people, on the whole, but they have acute biases that often, and sometimes regularly, show up in non-editorial content. People who want to make good political choices in elections should realize that. Remember, newspapers and media, in general, are owned by corporations, many of which are not particularly friendly to commoners, or politicians/candidates who pay heed to the needs and desires of commoners more than to special interests.
Of course, expedience demands that I cooperate with the media to some extent, but my natural instinct and experience knows all too well that the media is generally not friendly to those, like me, who more often than not don't go along with Establishment/Big Money interests.
Future post: Beware of so-called election rating specialists, and I probably won't be sitting down with the King County Municipal League, again, anytime soon, if ever. I'll be writing about this on Council.
Past post: I made a few revisions, today, to "First Official Opponent Files with PDC."
-- Mark Greene, candidate for Federal Way City Council (Position 1)
[revised on 3/10/15]
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