High Cost of Politics

We had a special speaker last night at our ham club meeting, which was held at Roswell City Hall instead of its usual location, the Masonic Hall in Alpharetta. We had a bigger crowd than usual because of the guest speaker, who was flown in at club expense from our national organization's headquarters in Connecticut. The meeting was open to anyone in metro Atlanta so we wound up with more than 200 people in attendance. I couldn't help but feel sorry though for a Fulton County commissioner who attended the meeting. She had to sit there and endure two hours of geek talk (lots of numbers flying about the air and even more insider jargon about radiation angles, standing wave ratio, RFI, vertical vs. horizontal vs. loop antennas, etc.) just to put in an appearance and perhaps pick up some political capital. But I guess that goes with the territory when you get into politics. One night you're attending a ham club meeting, the next a church supper, etc. etc. Still, it seems a hard way to earn living.