You’re INVITED!
Thank you to so many who have been helping on the Issue 1 campaign in Ohio. As with our August Issue 1 special election, we at Blue Ohio will host an election night watch CALL next Tuesday, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
We will have a number of special guests joining us—and are especially honored to have Congressman Jamie Raskin helping kick off our evening. I’ll be announcing more special guests in the coming days.
We also will have real-time analysis as votes come in—within Ohio, and other major national races as well.
We’d love our friends from across Ohio and the country to join us.
Please RSVP HERE to sign up.
Also, feel free to share this with groups or others you know who might be interested:
Laboratories of Autocracy Excerpt:
On the second anniversary of publishing Laboratories of Autocracy, I am sharing digestible excerpts of key lessons and passages. Enjoy:
Chapter 2: With Great Power Comes Great Anonymity
The meeting was at Westwood Town Hall, on Cincinnati’s West Side. It was 2005, a few years before the recession. But foreclosures were creeping up, so that was the topic of the meeting several city councilmembers were there to address.
I was one of them.
Maybe 50 or 60 residents gathered in the audience to listen to us. We were up on a raised platform, four or so of my colleagues seated in a row. We passed the mic back and forth, each earnestly talking about the need to address foreclosures, and steps we were taking. Truthfully, Cincinnati City Hall’s purview would’ve been pretty limited in battling the growing crisis, but that didn’t stop us from waxing on for some time.
After our comments, we took questions from the audience. And amid those questions, one hand shot up with more determination than the others.
I knew him right away….
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