Who Am I?

If you are stumbling across this Blog in the grand agglomeration that is the Internet you may be wondering just who the heck I am...or maybe you were just bored because Wikipedia is down today and you had nothing better to do. In any event, welcome.

Here we go...

I'm no one and I am everyone.

I'm an average guy, 35, living in my home town of Marshfield, WI. I have four great kids a good job and have an incurable addiction to politics. In fact, to feed my addiction, I ran for and was elected to the Common Council in Marshfield in 2005. Two years later I ran for and was elected Mayor of my home town.

Local politics are the essence of what politics are supposed to be about. Average people being elected to lead their community and represent the views of their constituents. No one makes a career out of being a member of a common council in small town America. When I was on City Council I was paid slightly more per month then when I was 12 years old and had a job delivering news papers for the local paper.

Even being the Mayor is a part time job, as it should be...that is for another blog, some other time...

So, why blog? Who cares about some small town Mayor's view on politics?

Good question. Besides the people who live here, probably no one; and honestly probably less than a handful of the people who live here care what I think about politics.

However, over the last several years I have watched as politics have changed in our country.

Let me start by saying that I am not a Republican, Democrat, Constitutionalist or Libertarian. I'm not a left-winger or right winger. I am somewhere in the middle. Closer to the right on somethings, closer the left on others. That is why I am writing this blog; because I think a lot of Americans are like me. They don't see a political party they can identify as strongly with as they may have in the past. The Common Sense Party doesn't exist anymore, if it ever did. People who believe in compromise are seen as weak.

That's wrong.

I have often stayed away from expressing my point of view on national politics because honestly I have many supporters as Mayor from both political sides and I have many family members and friends across the political spectrum. I have been habitually concious that my views would undoubtedly tick someone off.

That fact is, no matter what your political affiliation, you should be plenty ticked off right now.

So, if you want some average persons view on politics, please, check back often, comment if you wish and enjoy.