It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | Deborah Pryce, Deserting the Sinking Ship |
Today, Deborah Pryce announced that she would not be running for re-election in 2008. A member of the House of Representatives in Ohio’s 15th District, where I live, Deborah Pryce had a reputation as someone who was personally tolerant and kind. But while she was awfully nice as a person and said nice things about tolerance and diversity as a member of Congress, Deborah Pryce had a different record behaviorally speaking — she lashed herself to Republican Party priorities as a member of the Republican House leadership, and perhaps as a consequence Pryce toed the line on Republican policy priorities, voting for the authoritarian Bush agenda over and over again.
I may miss her nice personal speeches in my district. But I’m happy to kiss her legislative record bye-bye.
In case you were wondering, Pryce only won her district by a hair in 2006, and that was on the strength of her incumbency. Look for Ohio’s 15th District to move away from the Republicans in 2008.
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