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One of the themes of last night's dinner with Martha Layne Collins was her leadership style. I particularly enjoyed her harangue on politicians. She'd like to see politicians required to go out, shake people's hands, look them in the eye, and listen to their complaints. The way politicians operate today is the get a bunch of money together, head to the local TV studio, make a commerical, and air it in the 40% of areas with the most voters. When the media asked her how she was qualified to be the governor of Kentucky, she said because she's been to all of Kentucky's 120 many times. She compared having 120 counties to having 120 kids. When you're thinking of policy or regs, you have to know how it'll effect each and every one of them. I'm probably being cynical, but have you heard talk like that out of Columbus or Cleveland?

"Do you want to be a leader? Then you've got to be a servant."