Aftermath- Dayton political forum...
Oct. 18th, 2006 03:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redneckgaijin... borrowed Russ' car (again- here of late I might be putting more miles to it than -he- is...) to go to Dayton this evening for a political forum hosted by the local weekly paper. About seventy people showed up, but most of them were friends and family of the other candidates on the podium.
For those of you unfamiliar with my campaign for the Texas state legislature, I'm pretty much unique in putting the skeletons in my closet up on my campaign website. Well, one of the question-askers tonight had seen the website, seen that page, and asked how my writing pornography would help me be a good representative for Liberty County.
My answer, paraphrased: I get paid to write stuff, and even if I wanted to I couldn't afford to turn away paying smut requests. I'm glad to live in the USA where I can write whatever I want so long as it hurts nobody else. That said, I -don't- think that porn should be pushed on kids, and I'll fight to give parents greater control over what their kids can get their hands on while at the same time preserving the right of consenting adults to read and write whatever they want.
Nobody came up to me afterwards to say they couldn't support a pornographer, but -several- people came up to compliment me on how I handled the question.
I don't know how much effect this will have on the outcome of the race, but it's definitely an interesting experiment.
(Oh- and ALL my campaign signs I put up in Liberty and Dayton are gone- a couple of stakes here and there, but most of the time not even the stakes are left. I'm going to be charitable and say the wind blew them away, mostly because I have no proof that, alone of all the candidates with signs in the area, some people chose to get rid of -my- signs.)
(No proof, but plenty suspicion.)
For those of you unfamiliar with my campaign for the Texas state legislature, I'm pretty much unique in putting the skeletons in my closet up on my campaign website. Well, one of the question-askers tonight had seen the website, seen that page, and asked how my writing pornography would help me be a good representative for Liberty County.
My answer, paraphrased: I get paid to write stuff, and even if I wanted to I couldn't afford to turn away paying smut requests. I'm glad to live in the USA where I can write whatever I want so long as it hurts nobody else. That said, I -don't- think that porn should be pushed on kids, and I'll fight to give parents greater control over what their kids can get their hands on while at the same time preserving the right of consenting adults to read and write whatever they want.
Nobody came up to me afterwards to say they couldn't support a pornographer, but -several- people came up to compliment me on how I handled the question.
I don't know how much effect this will have on the outcome of the race, but it's definitely an interesting experiment.
(Oh- and ALL my campaign signs I put up in Liberty and Dayton are gone- a couple of stakes here and there, but most of the time not even the stakes are left. I'm going to be charitable and say the wind blew them away, mostly because I have no proof that, alone of all the candidates with signs in the area, some people chose to get rid of -my- signs.)
(No proof, but plenty suspicion.)
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Date: 2006-10-18 06:33 am (UTC)You're in yellow-dog Republican country out there. And unfortunately, "Libertarian" looks too close to "Liberal" for people who don't read much.