Politics often gets a bad name.

But from time-to-time, someone enters politics for the right reasons; to help people and make a difference.

Sucg a person was Chris Pablo, who died this week some 15 years after he was diagnosed with what was supposed to be terminaly short-term leukemia. Somehow, Pablo beat the odd on that one and went on to well over a decade of successful work in the public and private sector.  Advertiser writer Mike Gordon has a wonderful accounting HERE.

What the story does not capture, perhaps, is the sheer love of politics that many  of his generation demonstrated  They were in it not to get ahead for themselves, particularly, but rather for the opportunity to get things done. Theirs was not the politics of cynicism, or of protest or of disengagemnent. Rather it was a matter of plain hard work and using the political system to move their community forward.

We need more of that.