Re: Comment OPPOSED to Voting System Purchase

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe I missed something, but where were all the citizens who support 
this decision, other than county staff? I know a number of people who 
agree with my position(s) who have nothing to do with CVV, so what? I 
didn't claim to be speaking on behalf of CVV.

What matters is not the who's who of my personal supporters or 
detractors, but that people get involved and work on the issues so we 
stop getting screwed and ripped off constantly, and guess what, that IS 
representing the people, even those that don't vote! I'm not at all 
interested in running for any office, I'm interested in doing the right 
thing for our community, our country and our planet. Seems to me there 
used to be a connection there, but to those of us on the outside who 
aren't caught up in political aspirations, it's more and more obvious 
that's been lost.

Today, at every level of government, there's a worsening legitimacy 
crisis because elected representatives don't serve the people from whom 
they supposedly derive their authority, no matter what the voter 
turnout. I can't be the first person to have noticed this. In fact, it 
seems like there was a famous document written some time ago that 
warned us this might happen.

What's amazing is that more people aren't outraged, must be a beautiful 
silence to those in power.

Joe




On Apr 28, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Paul Tiger wrote:

> I actually know a number of people that disagree with your 
> position(s); and
> even a few of them that claim to be associated with CVV.
> Amazing isn't it?