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Go Vote. RIGHT NOW.
Nov. 7th, 2006 10:15 amOr I will find you and bitch slap you. Seriously.
It was rather empty at my polling place, but then, it was admittedly fairly early. There were a handful... okay 3, picketers out front with Deval signs. And a police officer, who rushed out into the street to stop traffic for me, all "Oh, thank GOD, finally a voter."
There were no "You Voted!" stickers for people who had voted. Hmf. I guess they only bring those out for Presidential election years. I feel cheated.
And half the candidates on my ballot weren't even running opposed, which was ludicrous (they were all democratic) and Kennedy was running opposed, which seemed even more ludicrous, like someone said to themselves: "Today I feel like burning money! I know! I'll run against Kennedy! That way, not only can I burn a lot of money, but my friends can have a good laugh over it at the same time!"
Here is an actual quote from a Republican campaign strategist: "I think in bizarro world, Chase could win."
I have not seen a single commercial or campaign ad or piece of literature from either Kennedy or his opponent Chase. And I have seen a lot of ads, recently. For a while there, The Liquor Store Lobby and the Grocery Store lobby were basically running hour-blocks of time campaigning for or against Ballot Question 1: Should grocery stores be allowed to sell wine.
According to the Liquor Store Lobby, this will result in the immediate ability of every bozo, escaped convict, and 12-year-old to buy vodka and 100 proof spirits from every single gas station in the State, whereupon we will all be mowed down by drunk drivers as we step out of bed and head to the shower.
According to the Grocery Stores, the Liquor Store Lobby are a bunch of whiny, snivelling babies who are blocking your ability to conveniently buy a nice wine to entertain the guests at your dinner parties with so that they can make an extra buck, and no wine drinker has ever even driven a car anyway, because they all belong to the Green Party and don't believe in that kind of thing.
Anyway. GO VOTE.
It was rather empty at my polling place, but then, it was admittedly fairly early. There were a handful... okay 3, picketers out front with Deval signs. And a police officer, who rushed out into the street to stop traffic for me, all "Oh, thank GOD, finally a voter."
There were no "You Voted!" stickers for people who had voted. Hmf. I guess they only bring those out for Presidential election years. I feel cheated.
And half the candidates on my ballot weren't even running opposed, which was ludicrous (they were all democratic) and Kennedy was running opposed, which seemed even more ludicrous, like someone said to themselves: "Today I feel like burning money! I know! I'll run against Kennedy! That way, not only can I burn a lot of money, but my friends can have a good laugh over it at the same time!"
Here is an actual quote from a Republican campaign strategist: "I think in bizarro world, Chase could win."
I have not seen a single commercial or campaign ad or piece of literature from either Kennedy or his opponent Chase. And I have seen a lot of ads, recently. For a while there, The Liquor Store Lobby and the Grocery Store lobby were basically running hour-blocks of time campaigning for or against Ballot Question 1: Should grocery stores be allowed to sell wine.
According to the Liquor Store Lobby, this will result in the immediate ability of every bozo, escaped convict, and 12-year-old to buy vodka and 100 proof spirits from every single gas station in the State, whereupon we will all be mowed down by drunk drivers as we step out of bed and head to the shower.
According to the Grocery Stores, the Liquor Store Lobby are a bunch of whiny, snivelling babies who are blocking your ability to conveniently buy a nice wine to entertain the guests at your dinner parties with so that they can make an extra buck, and no wine drinker has ever even driven a car anyway, because they all belong to the Green Party and don't believe in that kind of thing.
Anyway. GO VOTE.
