"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

 Theodore Roosevelt, April 19, 1906

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It's not just Greensboro.  The Roanoke Times continues to report on their own controversy surrounding the likely abandonment of old Victory Stadium.  It sounds like many on their City Council are pushing for a new stadium but a lot of citizens are up in arms over the whole thing.

People get attached to buildings that they have known all of their lives and threatening those same buildings gets people's dander up with good reason...  architecture is frozen music* and I learned long ago not to question people's taste in music (frozen or fluid).  They like it just because they like it and a new song cannot replace an old favorite that has real meaning in someone's life.

What is it about getting elected that causes many sincere and concerned citizens to lose touch with the very people that elected them?  If this affliction happens to me once I am elected I hope that I have the wisdom to realize the problem and go away on my own.  Barring this, I am confident and hopeful that the people will do it for me.

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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Ed Cone comments on the "wired" status of Greensboro Council candidates.

Ed is a deeply entrenched and nationally read blogger, every time he mentions my campaign in his blog my readership spikes - how to get folks to vote for me in Colorado and elsewhere is a challenge, but I am working on it. 

At the very least they could contribute to the cause to demonstrate that my campaign can make as much money as Howard Dean.

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