Peter Connor 

@wiffleball
20 years local government service (Planning Commissioner, Ward Alderman, Mayor). Small businessman. Adjunct lecturer - University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN). Founded a home for homeless men in 2007.

There was a guest in the Oval Office, today. When someone comes as guest, there, or to your or my house for Sunday dinner, they occupy a place of honor. We treat them with kindness and humility. We don’t try to find words that are demeaning to their presence. Hopefully, we don’t engage them into a downward spiral of conversation that ends up to be “he said/she said” ending with “here’s your hat, what’s your hurry!” That’s what happened today. Humility was absent. Honor was absent. Kindness was …

There was a guest in the Oval Office, today. When someone comes as guest, there, or to your or my house for Sunday dinner, they occupy a place of honor. We treat them with kindness and humility. We don’t try to find words that are demeaning to their presence. Hopefully, we don’t engage them into a downward spiral of conversation that…

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I continue to be amazed and disgusted with the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives for its non-stance against the policies and behaviors of Trump, Musk, and the Trump administration. They, to a person, have abdicated their offices by doing nothing. As Trump and Musk continue to steam-roll over the very fabric of both ‘hard and so…

February 19, 2025