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It's all over the news. Scott Brown beat Martha Coakley in the race for Ted Kennedy's old senate seat. But like Senator-Elect Brown said, it's really "the people's seat." And the people have spoken.

Like a lot of big elections, there is another one left in its wake. This time it's the state senate seat that Brown will leave behind. The district is the Norfolk, Bristol, and Middlesex, which lies just south of Boston.

There will be a primary before the general election, so we'll keep an eye on the candidates as they pop up. Updates on this race will be posted to the  ELECTIONS  page, listed under Massachusetts Races.

As is the case with all special elections, this Boston race presents New England bikers with a special opportunity. All we need to kick start the effort is to find out where the candidates stand on the universal helmet law. It's a simple question that normally gets a simple answer. Yes, no, or dunno.

Sure, there's a lot more to bikers rights than just the helmet law. But that single issue shows proof-positive whether they're biker-friendly or a nanny-crat. And among bikers, it's a passionate issue. Passion becomes motivation, and motivation becomes action. So then it's simply a matter of bikers taking action to help a biker-friendly candidate win.

And that takes campaign volunteers -- in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.

When bikers work as campaign volunteers, they help to win elections. There is nothing more powerful in the political world than that. So when bikers make a difference in winning elections, they get respect from legislators the old fashioned way: They earn it.

Simply put, but not so simple to accomplish.

There is only one weak spot in the whole chain of events. The RIDE2REPEAL.COM way is very different than how it's always been done in the biker's rights community. And change doesn't come easy, to bikers or to anyone else.

So when the call comes out for campaign volunteers, the odds are pretty good that bikers will stay put, waiting for someone else to go first.

That's where you come in. And yes, I mean YOU.

It only takes one biker to get the ball rolling. Without that one biker stepping up, nothing else happens, and we're stuck in the same place we've always been ... sucking the hind tit of the political milk machine.

But if one Bean Town biker steps up first, other nearby bikers can act when the time is right. And then we get our rights back. It's quick, efficient, and effective. In other words, it gets the most results with the least amount of effort.

To learn more, click on the green  How it works  tab at the top of RIDE2REPEAL.COM. Or just shoot me an email any old time.

- RIDE2REPEAL@gmail.com