With the creation of KeystoneConservative.com I have shifted my focus onto Pennsylvania politics and I am continually searching for other like minded conservative bloggers in our great commonwealth. This may be old news to most of you but today I discovered Kerry benninghoff.
(photo from Mile89.com)
Kerry is the state rep for the 171st district and he also has a personal site called Kerry Beninghoff’s Mile 89 “The online journal of a plain spoken conservative” (he calls it mile 89 because Harrisburg is 89 miles from his home).
I spent a little time reading through his recent blog posts and liked what I read. Kerry’s tagline sums it up, he is a plain spoken conservative. Kerry started blogging back in August and this is why…
My friends at Centre Daily Times have been asking state legislators to dive in – to launch a blog and join the conversation. Well, with this first post friends, I’ve leaped. I’m a now a blogging legislator.
The online community is changing the public debate in so many ways. Bloggers are scooping reporters. Capitol insiders are plotting strategy from the opponent’s latest entry on MySpace or Facebook. Those 24-hour Google Alerts give voters the opportunity to track every public comment that’s found its way to the web. It’s all pretty mind boggling to me, but I’ve come to believe that transparency and access to the people who pay my salary is pretty important.
Well Kerry it was nice to virtually meet you and I just want to say thanks for joining the conversation online, I hope more legislators will leap into the online world and embrace the transparency and access the internet affords.
p.s. If you are a PA state rep and want to learn more about this whole blogging thing email me ethan@keystoneconservative.com and I’ll help point you in the right direction.
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