Busy Busy

It's been a minute since I posted. I've given two trainings in the last week (Beaumont and Llano). I'm updating Grassroots Priorities daily and the session is starting to move quickly. I'm trying to keep up with my client work.

I've got some things on my mind, so I'll just talk randomly...

I read of people who want to create qualifications for certain positions, such as ensuring that only native born Americans can serve on the bench as a judge or can be elected to Congress. That sounds like a smart qualification, but it guarantees nothing. Bernie Sanders is native born. John Roberts is native born. In my opinion, it's a lazy requirement to keep from the real work: electing the right people.

We get the government we allow. If you want people appointed to positions who will do the right thing, then you have to elect people with the right judgment to appoint the right people. Greg Abbott makes some pretty horrible appointments. Joe Biden made some terrible appointments. Giving them a more narrow constraint for appointment will not solve their bad judgment, which is the root of the problem.

The same goes for those elected. You don't solve Ilhan Omar with nativity requirements - we can get a Jasmine Crockett or AOC.

Elections are work. Scott Presler warned of the Pennsylvania result of not working to keep a seat and now Democrats keep majority control of the state House by a single seat... and this other result too.

I'm also watching friends of mine down at the capitol here in Texas fight to get good legislation passed and to kill bad legislation.

A phrase I miss is "the spirit of the law." That was used by savvy judges who wouldn't allow the tiniest of loopholes in the wording of the law as an excuse for criminal activity. Now we have to get the exact right wording or the law can be the opposite of what we need.

But that gets back to appointing and electing people who use good judgment to adhere to the spirit of the law. That's on us. We get the government we allow.

So either get involved or get run over.

2 Comments

Penny (Mar 26, 2025 1:09 PM):

We can’t elect good people who are not on the ballot. It is all about who is on the ballot

Kim Spain (Mar 27, 2025 5:09 PM):

One of the problems with electing good people is that many on the right won't support someone unless they agree 100% on every issue. Invariably, good solid conservatives get elected then because of 1 or 2 issues, stringent conservative "will never support them again!" No elected official can make everyone happy.