Deep thoughts on the way home

[AllentownJake]

I had a friend who ran for office yesterday. She got creamed. I knocked on a lot of doors, handed out a lot of literature. She was the better and more qualified candidate. She does work for the party, the community, and was the best Obama team leader in the county. Some woman who works in the township office, has done nothing for the community waged a smear campaign against her and it worked.

I told my friend her opponent wanted it more. Her opponent had her husband delay prostate cancer surgery till after the election. Her opponent violated her ethics in the township by combing through the records and digging up information on my friend. Her opponent launched a negative smear campaign, made up lies that my friend and her supporters assaulted her (we calmly pointed out using her position to get information on a political opponent is an ethics violation). Lastly on election day her opponent went to a polling place and screamed and threw things at a 19 year old college student who volunteered for my friend because my friend was her leader during the Obama campaign. One of her comments was "You are a kid you don't know shit you should sit down and shut up." We wonder why our youth don't get involved sometimes.

I'm going to ask the county party to censure her for the polling location incident. Of all the things I think that is her worst behavior. My friend had the explicit and implicit endorsement in some cases of everyone in the township government, so I'm guessing her term is going to be interesting. I can't see her doing well under questioning by the commissioners.

We have to be careful when someone wants something that bad. They are dangerous. If she ran her campaign this way, I'm guessing the way she runs her new office, will be just as ugly.

We get the government we deserve. Unfortunately, for that Township they have that horrible women.

[patrice]

1. I hate it when a good candidate goes down to a mediocre one.

Politics takes something that is missing from my make-up. I have decided to be about ISSUES exclusively.

This is politics: We had a highly qualified and experience public servent, whom I worked hard for, go down to a cosmetics sales lady who was supported by national money from Americans for Prosperity (an absolutely blind anti-tax group). Last time I saw our ex-Mary Kay sales person in her office in the capitol building, she was wearing about $2,000. worth of tight, sexy, women's business attire, lots of cosmetics, and platinum hair. That was just before she voted to support Big Dirty Coal and against Alternative Energy Development.

This makes me very sad.

[AllentownJake]

2. Makes me sad,

but I blame my fellow citizens more than I blame the Mary Kay lady.

To quote Rev Wright "The chickens are coming home to roost"

[patrice]

3. Yeah, that's a good thing about the "chickens". . . .

I just hope it isn't soooooooooo many of them that they crush the innocent, young and old.

[AllentownJake]

4. Generally speaking it hits the people between 30-60 the hardest now

They are the ones who choose not to vote. 8% turnout. Of all that were eligible to vote 8% of the people bothered.

Most of our local elections are decided by people over 60. A local pol who cares about getting re-elected will send as much money to that group as humanly possible.

The young are pretty resilient.