Stand Up, Or, Um, Sit Down for What You Believe In

But make sure you know how the elections are going to go first.

Tom Rawles is a Mesa City Councilman who's sitting out the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of council meetings.

Rawles said he has been thinking about making such a protest for about five months. But he wanted to see how the congressional elections and Bush's reaction to the Iraq Study Group report played out before making a public protest.

Because the congressional elections had a big effect on his conscience?