Sweet and kind, she sat next to me on the State Senate floor. Her one interest was to end abortions. We agreed on nothing, but I liked her.
She was becoming a rarity in politics, uncomplicated, real and true to what she believed, but about to be screwed by the leadership.
They needed her vote to support a bill, which I supported but that she strongly opposed, again on religious grounds.
On a bathroom break, unknown, only to her, the chair shuffled the agenda to confuse and get her positive vote on what she thought was another bill that she did support.
She walked off the Senate floor in tears.
I instantly felt the remorse, all feel of their silence, when a word of warning was due.
The creeping sludge of most local politics has long made it unlikely that the honorable, dignified people in our communities would enter public service.
That was decades ago, when much of the sludge remained low level, and dignity was still the cream that could manage to elevate to higher office.
Richard Kimball
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