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To: Neil H who wrote (45420)	12/30/2003 3:46:10 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Better yet as you have the answers, why not run for some office and change things. The answer is simple. Even a city council seat in my podunk little town in Central Oregon is a juiced competition. The winners of the last election spent upwards of $40,000 per seat for a post that offers no payment to the incumbent. I simply don't have a stable of well-heeled benefactors who would bankroll such a run for office. Nor would I care to become beholden to those who offer these thinly-veiled bribes for special interest votes. *** Continue with your misguided prose. Thanks, I intend to. Though I respectfully beg to differ with your characterization of my ouevre as "misguided". I find it a tad too idealistic for a world where even "realpolitic" has been supplanted by the messianic orgy of ideology spouted by the likes of the Thief-In-Chief. Who may or may not believe his own bilge-water prose. *** It is much harder to be part of the solution. The first step toward being part of the solution is to refuse to be part of the problem. That is where the loyal and low caste Bush supporters have run off the tracks.