Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Too Close for Comfort
We have a handful of races in the county that will only be decided after the counting and challenging of numerous absentee ballots. Simon has the rundown for Dryden. My favorite race, of course, is the one in District 23, where luminaries such as Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich sought to define the Conservative v. GOP side of the race, and the tortoise won while everyone else was scrambling and chasing his or her tail. Of course, he has to turn around and run again next year. . . .
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Well, in Cincinnati. Ohio, we approved a casino referendum written by a handful of major convicted criminals, deprived the mayor of his slim supportive majority by replacing our one strong guy with a screaming lunatic, elected a personal nemesis (and I've only been here a year) to the school board, and approved an "animal oversight board" that will be dominated by agribusiness.
The local reactionary paper did feature a headline: "Off year election voters whiter and older" which was then denounced as racist by various older and whiter voters.
O. . .M. . .G.
Of course, the whiter and older thing is true of off-year elections nationwide, racist or not. It's why my big mailer to the liberal west side of Dryden was all about how "When Democrats Vote in Dryden, Democrats Win in Dryden," because Republicans vote no matter what, but Dems stay home if the issues aren't Big and National, despite their blather about grassroots this and that. (My other slogan for that part of town was "Shop Locally. Eat Locally. Best of All, VOTE Locally.")
Have you actually tried eating locally in NYS in the winter? Potatoes and turnips, turnips and potatoes. With an occasional parsnip.
It's all about the canning.
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