Volunteerism
Over the course of this year, I’ve published several articles chronicling my volunteer efforts to help elect Todd Tiahrt as our next U.S Senator from Kansas. As a former civics teacher of mine once told me, “It’s citizen involvement that will turn things around.”
Volunteering is important to me; you’re giving something of yourself freely to help further a cause in which you deeply believe. Some of us are super-dedicated in our volunteerism, while others take it even further, deeply sacrificing with all they have to work for what’s right.
One such example is my good friend, Michelle Hucke.
It was surprising, therefore, to learn a few weeks ago, that Michelle was being targeted by “Moran fans” as a supposedly-paid staff member on the Tiahrt campaign – an accusation based entirely on an article I wrote.
So, because these people are apparently incapable of doing their own fact-finding, I’m going to make things crystal-clear for them.
Michelle Hucke is, in fact, the volunteer Southeast Kansas Coordinator for the Tiahrt campaign – a position that she holds with entirely no financial or other compensation. As a student at Pittsburg State University and a newlywed, she’s, according to her own words, “not able to donate money to the campaign”, so she donates her “time and energy instead.”
Recently, Michelle wrote several letters to the editor. Hopefully, this helps re-assure those newspapers those letters were, in fact, genuine and also helps the public realize they’ve been duped, yet again, by a Moran campaign that digs no deeper than glossy campaign mailers (or their inane cartoon-style ones, either).
