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Sparkle (1)
As a matter of fact the vast majority of people who run for public office are decent, hard working people. Believe it or not, if you are a crook there are a lot of easier ways to earn your ill-gotten gains – dentistry springs to mind.
I worked in the office of a provincial cabinet minister way in those distant times when the natural born rulers of B. C., the Social Credit Party, still roamed the halls of the Legislature. While our politics didn’t exactly match, I did find myself respecting the man I worked for and the office he represented.
More important was the lesson that the life of an elected official is not an easy one. There may have been one or two dishonourable sleaze balls stealing fancy stationary or a constituent’s wife but the vast majority, on both sides of the house, were decent folk who had taken time out from their lives to serve the public.
Whenever an election looms I remind myself that my first assumption should be these are honest people. Then set out to find out everything possible about them and what the stand for before entering the polling station.
