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Darcy Burner We Need You!

By noemie maxwell
Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 12:13:46 PM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Election news/info

We have witnessed a remarkable phenomenon recently. In the face of a corrupt, inept, and dishonorable national leadership, citizens like Darcy Burner, Peter Goldmark, and Richard Wright have stepped out of successful private lives into the bruising business of running for national office to lead us back to honor and strength. This strikes me as akin to the sacrifice that soldiers make when they volunteer to fight, a sacrifice that this administration dishonors by mistreating soldiers and veterans, running an inept war, selling out our military to corrupt private contractors, sponsoring torture, and suspending habeus corpus. Soldiers like Washington's Ricky Clousing and Ehren Watada have made the sacrifice twice: first volunteering for service and second speaking up against the dishonorable way this war is being run.

True to the nature of American media, public focus has settled more on the scandals and outrageous behavior of the Republicans that triggered this wave of citizen action -- than it has on the Americans who are sacrificing to restore our honor.

Lynn Allen at Evergreen Politics just now has a very insightful post up on Darcy Burner: We Need Darcy in Congress that helps redress this imbalance. Lynn writes from her experience as a consultant and trainer in the high-tech industry, as well as a political activist/ organizer and close observer of the Burner campaign. It's well worth the visit.

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