I have been asked what sort of political affiliations I have. On our political level in this state town elections in municipalities under 50,000 residents are non partisan. So I ran under a made up for the moment party. However I am a democrat. This is a county that goes 55/45 republican and about 20% of the offices are held by democrats in the county. I am the township chair for my area, only because I am the only democrat that's visible in my corner of the county. I don't meddle to much in partisan politics, since I have enough of it going on in my town of the local variety.

I am actually supporting a republican for our local county board seat and declining to find a democrat for the seat because I want to beat the incumbent pretty badly. So rather then be public, I am raising money behind the scenes for him. A skill he lacks and will need to beat the incumbent.

My personal politics are moderate, I tend to be to the very right on some issues and to the left on some others. Some of the issues that face the town I am in are educational funding reform and unfunded mandates pushed down on us by the feds and the state. I go crazy over how screwed up that is and what the town would have to pay if we did some of these half baked federal mandates.