The candidate announces

A friend sent me an email invitation to "A Big Annoucement" that he was making at the Custer Co. courthouse last night, so I went. Turns out he's running for County Commissioner. It seemed to be a meeting of the Custer Co. Democratic Party - all 15 of them! I'm kidding - there are a few more Democrats in the county, but they didn't show up for the meeting.

Actually, in a county this small, I'm not sure how much party politics matter. But then, someone did say that 'all politics are local.' Alan Urban is the candidate and his platform is one of getting more people involved in local govt. For instance, he'd like to have commissioner's and zoning meetings in the evenings, so that working people could actually go and find out what's going on.

This has been one of my pet peeves about trying to get involved in organizations in the Valley - most of them have their d#*n meetings in the daytime!

Maybe things are starting to change - hope so!