Grass-Roots Politics Hits A New High

Whew! That post headline was almost too easy to write.
Your MesaZona blogger, with 'a nose for the news', likes to get wind of stories like this:

The Owner of Two Pot Shops Won a City Council Seat in a Conservative, Rural Town

December 2 2017, 7:52 am

And he changed its reputation

The story was published yesterday about an election in November in Washington State. It's far from your typical kind of reporting by a long shot ....What made the guy's campaign to get elected work? 

 

According to the article, ". . . he eventually won his district over by practicing good, old-fashioned retail politics: showing up at events, talking to people, hearing them out, and recruiting them to his agenda.

Lee joked that he made his campaign less about his “evil cannabis agenda,” than a contrast between himself and the incumbent. Jones was chief financial officer at the Hanford nuclear reservation, a local Superfund site.
In his campaign literature, Lee noted that his business wasn’t that different from any business — and that it contributed to the local economy.
His website notes that his business Green2Go “has since created over 30 fulltime positions with full benefits, contributed $65,000 in local charitable giving, generated over $500,000 in local tax revenue and $2,200,000 in state tax revenue.”
“It was sort of like, billion-dollar-budget-federal guy versus hometown, small-business owner, so it was really the effort to push the narrative in that direction, and that definitely took,” he said of his campaign. 
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