Personal Note: Political Statement

Dear Candidate for Local Political Office:

      I admire your advocacy of fiscal discipline. I support sensible budgeting and despise pork-barrel projects as much as the next man (as long as the next man isn't, say, John C. Calhoun or Ted Stevens). But I couldn't help but notice that, of your three examples of wasteful government spending, the first two were arts-related and the third cultural. Were I a voter in your district, you would have lost my support then and there. As it is, I would like to suggest that you put your budget-cutting shears down very slowly and step away from the poetry, the art museum, and the harvest festival. I have extensive training in rhetoric as well as a blog and I'm not afraid to use either of them.

      Now, if I could just direct your attention to the public funding for that municipal sports stadium? The one to be used by the well-heeled professional franchise?

Yours very sincerely,
nebroadwe