Colorado House District 6 Candidate and blogger Joshua Sharf attended the Independence Institute’s candidate briefing yesterday (Sharf dubs it “Wonkfest 2008”). He reports about the event on his blog View From a Height:
It's this kind of a day that makes
me think it might be more fun to work there than to run for office, a
calculation that [ Independence Institute President Jon Caldara ] apparently
made years ago. These folks cover the waterfront, and just about every session
had some tidbit suitable for candidate consumption.
The briefings were at a variety of different levels, but it'd be fair to say that they assumed a certain familiarity with the principles behind them. For instance, when [ Linda Gorman ] noted that it's philosophically incoherent to refer to health care as a, "right," because it's a product, it assumes an understanding of 1) scare resources, 2) what Rights are in the Constitution, and 3) the qualitative differences between the two.
The Independence Institute is strong in philosophy as well as politics. For an interesting glimpse inside the Institute, visit Joshua Sharf’s blog, and read the whole article.
by Civil Sense
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