{"id":9352,"date":"2015-05-16T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2015-05-16T22:10:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T22:10:42","slug":"dont-presume-anything-mr-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9352","title":{"rendered":"Don't presume anything, Mr. Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Dear John,” the form letter that arrived today started.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for your support during the recent general election. Judy and I can’t express to you enough how much your encouragement and prayers kept us moving forward. We are proud of our positive campaign and thankful for every vote that came our way.”<\/p>\n

The writer went on some more … blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

He signed it “Steve,” as in Steve Rogers, candidate for Amarillo City Council, Place 4.<\/p>\n

I wonder why I got the letter. I didn’t vote for him in the May 9 municipal election. I don’t know if I’ll vote for him in the June 13 runoff between him and Mark Nair, who finished at the top of a crowded field of candidates running for the fourth place on the City Council. Just so you know, my vote went to one of the other<\/em> candidates.<\/p>\n

I’m inclined to vote against him just because he seems to presume so much about the “encouragement and prayers” I allegedly sent his way.<\/p>\n

This note reminds me of another note I got some years ago. A member of my family got married. He’s\u00a0the son of one of my first cousins. I met him once —\u00a0I think —\u00a0when he was a very young boy. So, he\u00a0married\u00a0this girl on the East Coast and several weeks later, my wife and I receive a note thanking us for the “very special gift” we sent them.<\/p>\n

We didn’t send them a gift. My wife and I laugh about it to this day.<\/p>\n

So, candidates, please take to avoid presuming too much about the constituents you seek to serve.<\/p>\n

Some of us might tattle on you.<\/p>\n\n

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