I feel like I’ve been really testing the adage “it’s better late than neverâ€? on this blog lately. Anyway, I was recently reminded of a group that I vaguely knew about that did a lot of great work during the 2004 election – the Student Voting Rights Campaign. With Eugene Kang running in Ann Arbor […]
Vote For Eugene Kang August 2
Eugene Kang is a native Ann Arbor resident who is running for Ann Arbor’s City Council from Ward 2. He is a 21-year-old University of Michigan senior. If elected, he would be the first undergraduate on the City Council in many years. He is running against a former Republican mayoral candidate Stephen Rapundalo in an […]
Eugene Kang’s Platform for A2 Council
The Kang campaign just sent me a piece of literature they have been distributing in Ward 2 with a letter from Eugene and his platform for City Council. Here’s the text: EUGENE KANG FOR WARD 2: WAKE UP THE CITY COUNCIL! Dear Neighbor, My name is Eugene Kang, and I am running for Ann Arbor […]
‘You have to reframe the issues before the facts can become meaningful and powerful.’
These excerpts are from an interview of George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor who wrote “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think,” and is working on a forthcoming book titled “”Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate.” “In another chapter I tell progressives how to talk to conservatives. This […]