Vern Humphrey
Member
You're exactly right. Here in Arkansas, we went from a Yellow Dog Democrat state to a Republican state -- All of our Senators and Representatives are Republicans, we have almost a 3/4 majority in the State Senate and almost a 2/3 majority in the State House. All Seven Constitutional Officers (governor, Lieutenant Governor and so on) are Republicans.Unless you're involved you're not going to know who or what you're "involved with". You have to get involved in local activism efforts and politics so you can get to know who you can work with and who you can't. You have to know who the power groups are on issues and how to work with them.
People have always said that you can't accomplish anything working with the system, but I personally know that just isn't true. I worked 2 years against politicians that did not want to see state law changed here in Tennessee.
And all kinds of good things are happening. The state is solvent, with cash reserves, we have good gun laws and getting better and better.
One example that's easy to tell about is the State Auditor. The Auditor's office went from 35 to 24 employees when a Republican took over. One who left was the "Chief of Staff" (for an office of 35 people!?!) who made $20K MORE than the Auditor.
Another person was the guy who drove to the central Post Office and picked up the mail -- the Post Office DELIVERS mail to the Capitol Building!!