Many may think my choices for my blog signal that everything will be light and airy but the reverse is true. My background is light and airy because my musings are anything but.
I guess I should tell you a bit about my background and why of this blog. I grew up in a political family. My father's family has been active on both sides. My great-uncle was a state assemblyman, his son was the Commissoner of Voters for our county for years. My grandfather was active because my grandmother could not be elected in those days. That did not lessen her local power though. When my dog went missing when I was in second grade she called the mayor and got the pound opened for me on a Sunday morning. My dog wasn't there he came home exhausted without a collar but well cared for two weeks later. The first campaign quarters I recall being at was my great-uncle's. He died when I was only 6 or 7 so at 53 I have seen, heard and been involved for close to a half century. My grandmother's family was Republican, my grandfather's Democrat. I got exposed to both sides because of this. I really was not happy about getting to stuff mailboxes both with election materials and later monthly letters from the elected as a pre-teen and young teenager but I did it.. I read and listen to things on both sides, I research to find the truth and use it to form opinions. One big thing though I Do Not listen to proven liars. I know all politicians lie to a certain extent but there is a difference "read my lips no more taxes" spoken by a candidate who had to eat his worlds when he raised taxes and "Everyone will get health coverage and it will be cheaper" by a sitting president. Seems all the stuff I was hoping was a he will try to follow through on WAs a lie but everything I assumed had to be a lie he will try to do. I grew up with a parent who was a pathological liar so I am real good at spotting lies.
I am a permanently disabled person who fits into many of the groups often discriminated against I have many personal things that lead to opinions, I have also have close family who lived to 80 90 and above. I see first hand what they need. I trained as a teacher of elementary and special education students. Prior to my final head injury I have worked retail, factory, office, and educational jobs. I lived in San Francisco's Tenderloin as a grad student. I observed, volunteered and did student teaching in both public and private inner city schools, residential camps, parochial schools, department stores that are both lower and higher priced, I worked with elderly and saw the things effecting them firsthand. My opinions so not come from a vacuum of knowledge I've seen or been affected first hand.
I guess I should tell you a bit about my background and why of this blog. I grew up in a political family. My father's family has been active on both sides. My great-uncle was a state assemblyman, his son was the Commissoner of Voters for our county for years. My grandfather was active because my grandmother could not be elected in those days. That did not lessen her local power though. When my dog went missing when I was in second grade she called the mayor and got the pound opened for me on a Sunday morning. My dog wasn't there he came home exhausted without a collar but well cared for two weeks later. The first campaign quarters I recall being at was my great-uncle's. He died when I was only 6 or 7 so at 53 I have seen, heard and been involved for close to a half century. My grandmother's family was Republican, my grandfather's Democrat. I got exposed to both sides because of this. I really was not happy about getting to stuff mailboxes both with election materials and later monthly letters from the elected as a pre-teen and young teenager but I did it.. I read and listen to things on both sides, I research to find the truth and use it to form opinions. One big thing though I Do Not listen to proven liars. I know all politicians lie to a certain extent but there is a difference "read my lips no more taxes" spoken by a candidate who had to eat his worlds when he raised taxes and "Everyone will get health coverage and it will be cheaper" by a sitting president. Seems all the stuff I was hoping was a he will try to follow through on WAs a lie but everything I assumed had to be a lie he will try to do. I grew up with a parent who was a pathological liar so I am real good at spotting lies.
I am a permanently disabled person who fits into many of the groups often discriminated against I have many personal things that lead to opinions, I have also have close family who lived to 80 90 and above. I see first hand what they need. I trained as a teacher of elementary and special education students. Prior to my final head injury I have worked retail, factory, office, and educational jobs. I lived in San Francisco's Tenderloin as a grad student. I observed, volunteered and did student teaching in both public and private inner city schools, residential camps, parochial schools, department stores that are both lower and higher priced, I worked with elderly and saw the things effecting them firsthand. My opinions so not come from a vacuum of knowledge I've seen or been affected first hand.
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