Notes from the Campaign Trail

If anybody would like a yard sign, I still have a few left. Send me an email with your name & address and I'll get one to you. dougwood57@charter.net

The response to the domestic partner health insurance proposal has been overwhelmingly positive. I've had only two negative comments and many, many positive ones. I am hopeful it will pass on Monday.

One of the most striking things I've noticed when going door-to-door is the tremendous pride that so many Mononans take in their homes. And not just pride, but investment, too. Even at modest homes in modest neighborhoods, you see home after home with new concrete driveways, new front doors, new siding, or new windows and none of that stuff is inexpensive. We have some issues with our housingstock, but like Mark Twain's death, the demise of Monona has been greatly exaggerated.

One house provokes this comment. The home has three American flags and a large sign board touting support for the troops, all admirable sentiments, but then I look on the voter list - and nope, that address is not on there.

The candidate forum is Sunday night at 7 PM. These events are not my forte - I always think of better answers the next morning. But, I always remember the late President Ford's astounding gaffe in the 1976 presidential debates when he asserted that there was "no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". This answer so shocked the moderator that he gave Ford a chance to correct himself, but he was having none of it. Thanks for setting the bar so low, Mr. President!