If you don't like Paul Hackett ........ [View All]

..... then you may not like this post.

I think Paul Hackett is the prototype for certain 06 congressional races. Tough guy. Truth to power. No way he comes off like a 'Mommy Party' candidate.

All that and he's a Dem. You may well not agree with him 100%. I know I don't. I want 100% access to universal health care with a single payer system. Not some cobbled together junk that keeps the big insurers in business. He doesn't. I want gun laws returned to the states so that hunters in rural areas can keep their guns while some far more restrictive gun laws make better sense in big urban areas. He doesn't share this view.

But ya know .... fuck that. I see myself having far more in common with him than out of synch with him. I can live with the differences because I also trust he is a reasonable guy who wants the same things I do. We differ only in the debatable details and the debatable methods.

I see another candidate like him: Eric Massa, who is running in New York's 29th congressional district. Here's his website (still somewhat of a work in progress). http://www.massaforcongress.com/

I'm here to say this guy is great! I had a recent occasion to speak one on one with him for about 15 minutes. Again, while I am not in lock step with him, he is ***exactly*** the kind of person we all need in congress.

Both these people are their own person. They defy the usual labels. They're liberal on most issues, while seemingly conservative on a few of the others. Yet, as a whole, they're on our side. Can any one of us take issue with them? Of course we can. But we can't fault either one of them for their sincerity or their notion that they're there to do the right thing **as they see it**.

I'll bet there are other candidates or potential candidates out there who fit this 'non mold' ..... honest and independent thinking. Not fucked up by years of 'beholden' politics.

Who do you know who fits this bill? Who are your rising stars?

And what do you think of these two?