It’s official. Cedar Rapids has a new Mayor and several new City Council members. I look forward to Wednesday’s meeting. I want to see everything that Ron Corbett plans on bringing to the table.
If you follow the Gazette you know that I ran for the seat in District 3. I felt it was time for Jerry McGrane to retire. He’s a nice guy and all but we needed a stronger voice than what we were getting from him.
Did I ever have a chance? Maybe, maybe not. At least I did something. A lot of people just sit and complain. I got up and tried.
I was dismayed when I heard Pat Shey was running for the District 3 seat. His war chest and support system was more than I cared to take on at that time.
The time came when I realized that Corbett was backing McGrane and we were not even through the primary, I decided to begin to work with Pat Shey and to make sure that Jerry did not return to the Council. I realized that it meant that Pat would probably win the seat.
Am I happy that Pat is my representative today? Not always, it depends on when you ask me. I’ve written two emails in the last month and he has not shown the common courtesy of responding to either one. That bugs me. Am I surprised? A little. Disappointed? Yes.
I told a cousin in Oklahoma City that if I ever decided to run for political office again that I was just going to stand in front of an oncoming semi truck. I think that would be a little less of an ordeal! He agreed it would be best to stay out of politics. He mentioned something about slime…
My new years resolution is to sit back, watch what is going on in the political world, generally the republican one, and blog about it. I’m through being in the trenches. I devoted a decade to the GOP in Iowa. Oh, it’s been interesting for sure. I’ve seen lying, stealing, cheating and all manner of bad stuff and shoot that was just in my own back yard! It’d make a fine book for sure, no one would believe half the stuff! I’ve got the stories about fame, fortune, romance, lust, hate, crime, you know – everything but a good old fashioned murder!
There have been many great moments as well. Friends I’ve made that I don’t even think of as politicians. Among those are David Vaudt, our State Auditor and Bill Northey, our Secretary of Agriculture. There are many more that I will mention in other blogs but these two are at the top of my list.
I’ll let you know what I think of the new Mayor’s meeting on Wednesday!
Happy New Year!
Kathy Potts
