I Voted

There was a special election today in Bloomington to fill an open seat for State Representative. The turnout seemed low and mostly elderly. I voted for Republican Chad Anderson on the way home from work.

He promises to: fight tax increases of working families and small businesses--excellent.

He promises to: bring fiscal responsibility to state government--excellent.

He promises to: create more good jobs in our communities. I do not believe politicians create jobs. Private for profit businesses create the jobs. Politicians grow government, and that kills jobs. A more honest and realistic promise would be to downsize and end government regulation of business, and that will stop the killing of jobs, a more useful conservative politician goal.

He promises to: reform government so that it works for us--not the special interests. Well, reforming government is another illusion. We are too late to be reform it, we mostly need to defund it and downsize it. Moderate, RINO politicians like Jeb Bush keep promising to reform what cannot be fixed. so young Chad Anderson is good at communicating cliches, but how effective will he be reforming Mark Dayton world at the state legislature?

I do not want our politicians beholden to any special interests on the Left or Right. They serve and obey the people, and keep government small and humbled and out of the individual's way--that is about all any politician can or should promise.