Category: Politics

Meet your new Homestead City Council.

I just watched the first (televised) City Council meeting of the new group (taped from this past Monday night), and although I didn’t vote for a single one of them I was truly impressed with what I saw – their actions and their professionalism. Homestead will be in fine hands with our new elected leaders. NOW is the time for all of our citizens to support them as they correct some wrongdoings of the past and continue the sensible forward progress of this great city that we call home.

The Council Chambers were absolutely packed with disgruntled bowlers of all ages who recently lost their Homestead Bowling Center. 5 passionate representatives of the large group stated their case to the new City Council on the importance of the place to the city, and what could possibly be done to refurbish and then reopen the place. Mayor & Council will research the matter.

I just spent the past 90 minutes tonight with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney – my two favourite Republican presidential nominees. It was on C-SPAN and their “Road To The White House” series. Mike spoke from New Hampshire, and Mitt did a Town Hall Meeting from Cedar Rapids Iowa. It was good positive dialogue from both nominees with their respective supporters.

I don’t make it a habit of watching C-SPAN, but as the new year approaches – a year in which we will make what will be our most important decision in a generation to elect a new President Of The United States – it will be wise of me to tune in to the cable network to learn where each of the nominees of my political party stand on the various issues that are most important to me. I would rather see and hear where each of them stand in their own words at their various campaign stops rather than via one or two minute sound bites from the other networks.

As a follow-up to the CNN / You Tube Republican Debate that aired on CNN last night (which I watched earlier tonight on tape) Larry King has another one of his ‘not a scientific poll’ ‘Quick Votes’ up on his web page:

Who do you want to be the Republican Presidential nominee ?

(Here are the TOP 5 responses.) 

30% – Rudy Giuliani
18% – Mike Huckabee
15% – Fred Thompson
14% – Mitt Romney
11% – Ron Paul

(I voted for 1 of the above.)