Tuesday, November 07, 2006
no love
I know I said I'd post about the election yesterday, but I needed a day off and I (more or less) took it. Yay for self care!
The headline of this post refers to the fact that I received exactly 0 candidate calls or direct mail pieces about candidates between the primary and today. What's up with that? Before the primary, I was getting a phone call every half hour on the half hour (or so it seemed), in addition to a deluge of direct mail.
I have received plenty of direct mail about several of the ballot propositions, but nothing about any candidates. My mind was made up as soon as primary night was over, so it's not like any of that would have had any influence on me anyway. I also live in an apartment complex, which is usually the first to be taken off a list of direct mail targets.
I also only have a cell phone as my home phone, unlisted of course, and I'm on the Do Not Call Registry. Still, they had my number and used it for the primary. Just seems odd that nobody wants my vote as much in the general.
I'm going to hop in the shower, get dressed and head down the block to my polling place (the Tucson Boy's Chorus, which always puts a smile on my face for some reason). I'll probably circulate to a couple of the various parties and gatherings around town tonight (bloggers at Trident, No on 107 at Central Bistro, etc.). I may bring the laptop to liveblog from those places that have hotspots.
Please make sure you go vote today. If you need a ride to your polling place, I'm happy to volunteer. If you want to talk propositions, I never got around to posting my recommendations, but I'm happy to discuss those too.
Bottom line: just go cast your ballots with the best information you have.
Oh yeah, and write in Sam Schwartz for State Mine Inspector. Sure he knows nothing about mines or inspecting, but he's a Democrat and the Republicans haven't exactly distinguished themselves in the area of mine safety (Sago anyone?).
The headline of this post refers to the fact that I received exactly 0 candidate calls or direct mail pieces about candidates between the primary and today. What's up with that? Before the primary, I was getting a phone call every half hour on the half hour (or so it seemed), in addition to a deluge of direct mail.
I have received plenty of direct mail about several of the ballot propositions, but nothing about any candidates. My mind was made up as soon as primary night was over, so it's not like any of that would have had any influence on me anyway. I also live in an apartment complex, which is usually the first to be taken off a list of direct mail targets.
I also only have a cell phone as my home phone, unlisted of course, and I'm on the Do Not Call Registry. Still, they had my number and used it for the primary. Just seems odd that nobody wants my vote as much in the general.
I'm going to hop in the shower, get dressed and head down the block to my polling place (the Tucson Boy's Chorus, which always puts a smile on my face for some reason). I'll probably circulate to a couple of the various parties and gatherings around town tonight (bloggers at Trident, No on 107 at Central Bistro, etc.). I may bring the laptop to liveblog from those places that have hotspots.
Please make sure you go vote today. If you need a ride to your polling place, I'm happy to volunteer. If you want to talk propositions, I never got around to posting my recommendations, but I'm happy to discuss those too.
Bottom line: just go cast your ballots with the best information you have.
Oh yeah, and write in Sam Schwartz for State Mine Inspector. Sure he knows nothing about mines or inspecting, but he's a Democrat and the Republicans haven't exactly distinguished themselves in the area of mine safety (Sago anyone?).
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Michael- Sam posted this thank you on his blog- thought I'd pass it along. . .
"Well, I want to thank everyone who wrote me in for State Mine Inspector, especially Michael Mandel who mentioned me on his blog a couple times, and everyone else at SACASA who rocked the vote. I lost by a mere 700k votes or so. Why should you have to know anything about mines to be state mine inspector? They do mean landmines, like bombs, right? I was thinking of having John Kyl on the front lines of that job, sniffing for all those bombs that all those (Bush voice) terrorists are leaving in our state, you know, because Al Qaeda is practically camped out on the other side of the border, just waiting for us to slip up! Damn those terrorists and their landmines! I should report this to Stephen Colbert...he would give a damn.
And oh yeah, the Dems picked up the House and Senate, Rumsfeld is gone, and Bush only has two years left. We're turning the corner people..."
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"Well, I want to thank everyone who wrote me in for State Mine Inspector, especially Michael Mandel who mentioned me on his blog a couple times, and everyone else at SACASA who rocked the vote. I lost by a mere 700k votes or so. Why should you have to know anything about mines to be state mine inspector? They do mean landmines, like bombs, right? I was thinking of having John Kyl on the front lines of that job, sniffing for all those bombs that all those (Bush voice) terrorists are leaving in our state, you know, because Al Qaeda is practically camped out on the other side of the border, just waiting for us to slip up! Damn those terrorists and their landmines! I should report this to Stephen Colbert...he would give a damn.
And oh yeah, the Dems picked up the House and Senate, Rumsfeld is gone, and Bush only has two years left. We're turning the corner people..."
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