Fred Dooley of realdebatewisconsin.blogspot.com has announced his candidacy for alderman of the 7th district in Racine. Of course I wish him well, but that is not the point of this blog post.
As an obsessive observer of politics and the antics of politicians, I would like to share some of my observations about the differences between bloggers and politicians. Political bloggers, if they are to have any interested readers, will have to say something. Politicians, on the other hand, will usually try to get elected by saying nothing.
I find it very irritating to try to figure out what a politician might actually do once in office, as they are skilled in the art of speaking well without actually saying anything. As such, you don't know what you have until it is too late. For example, did any of our politicians promise the barage of tax and fee hike proposals that we are presently seeing? No, they did not.
On the other hand, blogger candidates will have a record of their thoughts, positions, attitudes, etc... such that a voter will have a much better idea of what he is voting for, or against. I find this to be a very positive development.
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I think it is an interesting point that blogging candidates are on record about how they feel on numerous subjects. I also find it interesting that Fred hasn't been blogging at his obsessive rate on the RJT blogs, since he announced he was running for alderman. Any guess as to why? He is also deleting comments from his blog sites that aren't glowing remarks for him. So, what does that say about blogging candidates?
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