If you’ve been following the Louisiana pay raise outrage… WE WON!!!!

I’m exhausted. It was two weeks ago today that I started the LegeWatch website. People started signing on and volunteering. We scheduled a rally. On the advice of a more experience local politics watcher we canceled that rally and he scheduled one for two weeks later that a lot of groups like ours could pitch in on. LegeWatch did media interviews, arranged for billboards and a TV spot, got a permit to march in a parade, worked together with people organizing recalls, organized volunteers to get the word out and generally kept the heat on in every way we could. Quite a few legislators began to beg Governor Jindal to veto the pay raise, and today he finally did.

It’s a real testimony to the fact that representative government can work when people engage. I’ve met some incredible people who worked their butts off, people who got creative and dug in and spent their own money, and figured out ways to accomplish all kinds of interim goals to get us to this point of winning the larger victory. We all worked together, Democrat, Republican and Independent alike, and didn’t argue about things that weren’t pertinent to the goal at hand.

As for me… now that the phone has stopped ringing and the celebrations are calming down… after two weeks of nearly nonstop work and sleeping four hours a night, trying to keep up with my own obligations and do what I needed to do for LegeWatch… I’m taking a nap. I’m thanking God that it all happened, and thanking God that it’s all over.

And wondering what it would be like if I devoted myself to ministry with the same sense of energy and purpose I gave to this political movement.