I went to prayer at City Hall last night. I am not a regular attender, but I knew a City Councillor would be there last night, and I wanted to be part of that meeting.
I was impressed! And I am not easily impressed, especially by politicians.
He's not Mr. Personality, that's for sure, but that ups the trust factor as far as I'm concerned. He talked about his experiences in working for others and with others. Never badmouthed anyone, not even a little bit. Talked about his own passion for bringing new business to the city, and how he's walking out that passion. He mentioned other issues that already have "champions" and recognized their importance, but then talked about what he has chosen to focus on. I can respect that.
Straightforward ... respectful ... positive ... hard working. Not words I usually think of in relation to politicians. I am pleasantly surprised.
He also mentioned he has a blog to keep people in his ward up-to-date. I'm not in his ward, but it did motivate me to go to my own councillor's webpage and sign up for email updates this morning.
On another note...I need your input! When I started this blog, I chose to keep location and identifying factors out of it, because I'm new at blog-world and didn't want to do anything dumb. I'm more comfortable with it now...maybe you are too...is there any reason we shouldn't be able to talk about our location and church by name? As far as I can tell, the only person mildly identifiable is me, and since I'm usually broke, I'm not too concerned about identity theft, haha!!
Just seems like we could talk a little more specifically sometimes if we weren't talking in code.
Also...I have this blog set so that you don't get to it by accident - you have to know the address, or get here from our church website.
So there you are - two completely unrelated issues - politicians and privacy.
