Tony’s Kansas City Covers the Red Light Cam Protest
Have I mentioned how proud I am of Tracy? I have been on the road for a month and have not gotten my official announcement out, but if you haven’t noticed the WAVES OF LIBERTY rippling through KC this past month, you must be blind. Tracy has stepped up as the new KC area director and is going 90 mph. I am so proud of her. I’ll do the formal announcement when I’m off the road for a bit 
Tracy, LRP KC, I love ya’ll!
Tony, THANK YOU FOR COVERING THE REAL NEWS!
<3 Catherine
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
THE TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! GRASSROOTS PROTEST AND THE FUTURE OF LOCAL POLITICS!!!
Today I stopped by the Liberty Restoration Project Red Light Camera Protest and I was impressed.
Over the past few years I’ve noticed a lot more people organizing through the Internets and even old school grass roots methods because local politicos haven’t offered much in the way of leadership. This dedicated group is a great example of a few pissed off locals rallying on a subject that is evoking the ire of quite a few locals.
More importantly, I think grass roots organizing via the Internet is only going to grow more important as (by and large) the current crop of politicos in power (still) seem to be disconnected with what the vast majority of people on the street are thinking. I was talking with a rather well-connected professional working for a bit of change in his community today and he spoke of his efforts to simply, “bypass the leadership and go straight to the people.” That’s a sentiment I’m hearing more often nowadays and I can’t help but think that the local Internet is going to play some role . . . Don’t get me wrong, it’s not going to be all sunshine and flowers . . . Local politics moving to the Internets definitely means more fighting, nastiness and divisive content online but it also puts more hands into individuals and small time operators who also want to aggregate and congregate online like so many recent political campaigns.
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