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Taking the Next Political Step?
08/22/2002

OK, honesty time. As political as I find myself frequently being, I hadn't registered to vote until last October (at age 26). Since then, despite the occasional pleas from the party, I haven't become a contributor or an official member of any Republican organizations, and I'm so busy that it would take an awful lot for me to do more than keep a cursory eye on the local Rhode Island races, especially with the state's Republican office endorsing a pro-abortion candidate with more government-expanding ideas than I'd like to see. But politics is like that — a series of tradeoffs.

But reading this summary of a primary debate in the Providence Journal, I found a candidate with whom I can agree on down the line on big issues and tone (so far): Dave Rogers. In light of Victor's accounts of a politician using the Catholic church as a campaign tool in Michigan, I was especially pleased to read the following paragraphs in a Providence Journal profile of Rogers:

On the campaign trail last week, Rogers attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the Mother of Life Center, an antiabortion counseling center on Atwells Avenue in Providence.

As the participants sang and recited the rosary in the vacant lot, Rogers stood on the periphery. He did not work the crowd, and offered only brief remarks at a reception at Holy Ghost Church after the event, attended by former Gov. J. Joseph Garrahy.

"I was there in support of the project," Rogers says. "There is a time and a place to be a politician. A church ceremony is not one of them."

Maybe those incumbent-breaking out-of-state contributions can help unseat Patrick "He's from Rhode Island?" Kennedy. The Dave Rogers for Congress Web site can be found here.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 10:34 PM EST