National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and fellow Kossack, Jim Hightower is one of the funniest serious voices in grassroots politics today. He is the author of Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow, and a tireless advocate for "the powers that ought to be", such as consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and regular folks.
He sends us a note from the road, which is posted after the jump.
-rb
I've rambled from town to town this year (crisscrossing from Chico to New York City, Cape May to Santa Fe, Pittsburgh to Princeton, Fort Worth to Fort Collins, Buffalo to San Francisco, Portland to Portland, the Wisconsin Dells to my old home place of Denison... and points beyond), I've found that while people are vastly disappointed by the meekness of the Democrats and totally dismayed by the willful weirdness of Republicans, but neither has deterred them from pushing on with the groundwork that still must be done to revitalize our country's democracy.
One of the first things we must do on the ground is vote. Do early voting in your community if you can, but DEFINITELY go to the polls this Tuesday,
November 2nd.
Republicans and their "grassroots" front groups have put record amounts of money into this mid-term election cycle. Well, the Republicans might have all the fat cats but we have the Alley Cats with streets smarts. And, there's a whole lot more of us than there are of them. So go out and vote and show how many of us Alley Cats there are!
-Jim Hightower
Blasts from the past:
Hightower saves the Bush Republicans from socialism:
Hightower speaking about progressive values in 2008: