Yesterday we celebrated Ben Franklin’s 302nd birthday at North High School here in Denver. Here’s Chris Lowell aka Ben Franklin(www.BenFranklinLive.org), a video of who’s powerful endorsement of the Colorado Caucus, shot by my brother Jay, will be posted here soon. Ben's here in costume at intermission from “An Evening with Ben Franklin”, and then Chris out of costume with Joel Cannon who represented Ron Paul in the talks before the Presidential straw poll. Ron Paul supporters turned out in force and won the straw poll contest between all Democrat and Republican candidates by an almost 3 to 1 margin over the nearest competitor.
Are you going? I'll be there.
Friday, January 25, Independence Institute, 13952 Denver West Parkway, Suite 400
Golden. Hear former Denver Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Jerry Wartgow
share some of the perspectives featured in his new book
Why School Reform is Failing and What We Need to Do About It.
From a New York newspaper column yesterday: It bothers me that there is no particular national celebration of (Ben Franklin’s) birthday. Oh, someone will probably mention it — probably in a political “elect-me” speech — and maybe a history teacher will comment about it, and, at some place which is named for him — a “Franklin” School or a “Franklin” something-or-other — will make a minor matter of it — but it won’t be a big celebratory issue. That’s too bad, considering the impact that the man had on every part of modern life.
In an age when the political leaders generally came from wealthy families, Ben was born into a modest, though hard-working family of candle-makers. As Ben was the tenth son in his family, his father decided to “tithe” him to the church, so he was enrolled in school. After two years, Ben’s father realized that there was no money in the ministry, so he withdrew him. Ben, therefore, was certainly not the institutionally-generated person whom we expect in politics, today.
The Denver Post is about to launch a new online forum for people to report on their local neighborhood caucus. Watch here for details or go to www.PoliticsWest.com.
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