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[Cary]

70. I have held minor office.

I learned most of all that politics wasn't for me. I am the kind of person who cuts right to the chase and gets things done. In my minor office the job I took on, knowing it would be the end of my tenure, was to re-do a lobby in a large condominium.

Mind you I have no design skills whatsoever and had very little to do with the design. I just got it done.

Before me the building spent $100,000 on the famous architect who designed the building. They solicited comments from everyone and what they ended up with, trying to please everyone, pleased absolutely no one and the $100,000 was utterly wasted. I was determined to not repeat that experience.

The very first thing I did when I took on the project was to solicit owners to be on the lobby committee. Everything was made public during the whole process. Pretty much the design was done by outstanding architects and someone in the building who had excellent taste.

Guess what happened? I was run out of office on a rail. People didn't like this or that, but where were they when the work was done? I spent hours and hours on that committee. And the other thing was that we came within our budget, which meant that yes, certain aspects were done on the cheap. We weighed each decision carefully and did things that could be easily re-done on the cheap, like cladding concrete columns with aluminum. But of course people complained bitterly about a $2,000 expense in a $500,000 project.

So I have little respect for people like that, whom I consider to be rabble. Decisions have to be made. Hard choices have to be made. Someone like Barack Obama, who didn't have to be President because he could have been anything he wanted to be, deserves the benefit of the doubt. And yes, I gave that benefit to George Bush too until he proved unworthy.