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A sorry lot of candidates for governor

Michael Feldman surveys all the candidates running for governor this year and gets depressed:

... Speaking as a political tout, we can't work up a single calorie of heat over any of these morons. What do they all have in common? Money, ego, ambition, good suits and expensive haircuts, with the exception of Ms. Ross.

What strikes us most as we watch this depressing race shape up, is how little the collection of candidates resembles the legions of voters they hope will lift them to the corner office at the State House come November. Where are the teachers, programmers, butchers, pharmacists, farmers, writers, artists and truck drivers? When did the political class ascend to such a lofty level that only they are allowed to run for office? ...

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Mr. Feldman wrote:

"Speaking as a political tout, we can't work up a single calorie of heat over any of these morons. What do they all have in common? Money, ego, ambition, good suits and expensive haircuts, with the exception of Ms. Ross."

Indeed. Ms. Ross is not the candidate of ambition, ego, pricy haircuts and money. Those who would seek a candidate not of the "political class" need look no further than here:

http://www.gracenandwendy.org

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