My mail today included a full-color postcard from our local Congressman. He seems a nice fellow, but the postcard was more or less a message telling me that the fellow is sticking to the “Party Line” regarding the election we had last November.

Just to be clear, I have nothing against Republicans as individuals. Here is where the line “Some of my best friends are…” sounds a bit trite. Quite a few people I know of are honorable members of the GOP and I share many of their concerns when it comes to some of the issues which face us as citizens of the U.S.A.

What irks me are the “My way or the highway” folk who insist on political orthodoxy regarding certain topics not necessarily vital to moving our country forward. Essentially, that’s what my congressman (more probably the minions working for that congressman) sent me this morning.

I would rather engage with someone like Dave Hobson, the fellow who represented the northern part of Ross County Ohio back 30 years or so ago.

I met Dave while working for WBEX at the Veteran’s Hospital in Chillicothe. He was slated to give a speech, there. The boss man asked me and another fellow to go out and meet the guy.

I expected to be met with a parade of aides and press people surrounding the man, but was shocked when he came to the radio station van, asking us if we knew where he was supposed to be. After talking with him a bit, we took him to the VA auditorium where he had a talk to tell us that his father was a small-town postmaster and that he was like his father – dedicated to the idea that he was a public servant, not some high and mighty leader with aspirations for higher office.

It was later that I came to the realization that what he was espousing was something we now call “Servant Leadership.”

Would that everyone’s Congressman be the same. We could accomplish quite a bit for the good of everyone, not just for one’s particular political party.

(Did I mention that Mr. Hobson was a Republican? Pardon the error.)

It was here that I was going to insert the letter I wrote to the Congressman “representing” me. I decided not to do so, as it would likely be tossed in the trash by him and some of my readers. It’s alright. I’ve already put the full-color postcard from my Congressman into the circular file.

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