Grassroots Sprout from Bad Weather...

The wet weather has apparently had the effect of sprouting grassroots in San Jose.

First, we have baseball...

With the (amicable divorce between Fremont and the Oakland A's, the grassroots group Baseball San Jose has launched some activity. Jacquie Heffner is posting on Baseball San Jose's blog, she started a group on Facebook, and has launched a website (well, not yet) at mlbsanjose.com. (Watch Dog hopes this blog (and the baseball movement overall) are more successful than Heffner's last blog-venture with San Jose Revealed...)

Next, we have libraries...

Also on the grassroots front, a website calling itself Books Not Filters has been activated to fight library censorship being proposed by Councilmember Pete "Ball Gag" Constant and Larry Pegram of the (so-called) Values Advocacy Council. (Of course) a Facebook site has also been launched. (Watch Dog has written about this issue before, and if it comes forward again, we won't be shy Ball Gag...)

Watch Dog understands that grassroots is not about competition...but...the Books Not Filters folks have more "Facebook Friends" than the Baseball San Jose people right now: 36 to 17. That probably means more in middle school than it does in real life, but we thought we'd share...

Sprout on grassroots activists!