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dragonlady7Well, I just filled out my absentee ballot and stuck it in the mail slot with a stamp on it. Good for me.
I have a general policy of voting against incumbents. Particularly in New York State. We have the single most corrupt, under-performing state government in the entire nation, according to statistics I read during our annual budget crisis.
(For the non-NYS-residents on my friends list, I will explain briefly. The primary function of a state government is to pass the state budget. It's pretty much All They Have To Do.
For TWENTY YEARS now, New York State's state legislature has failed to do this on time.
Their record is something like FOUR MONTHS LATE.
During this four months, state employees and all organizations that recieve state money must pay their employees with borrowed money.
The interest is paid by who? Taxpayers.
This year the legislators WENT ON VACATION instead of passing the budget. I shit you not. Dozens were ARRESTED for trying to blockade the legislators into the building to make them stay. I speak in caps because I am ANGRY.)
So I went into this with my "when in doubt, vote 'em out!!" pen poised.
They were all running unopposed.
Motherfuckers.
So I added a write-in candidate under my favorite unopposed asshole, Joseph "Pork Barrel " Bruno, whose favorite pastime is to construct things for his cronies using taxpayer money and then name it after himself. There's a stadium, a highway, and innumerable amphitheatres. He even dictated that the baseball stadium (built two miles from an existing stadium also paid for with taxpayer money, that then went bankrupt and had to be closed) should be nicknamed "The Joe". Come ON, you arrogant pigfucker! Give us a goddamn break!
I wrote in:
ANYONE BUT JOE. And drew a box. And put in a big X.
I also refused to vote for the unopposed state Supreme Court justices. Come now, they'll win without me, and I saw no reason to vote for them.
Give me a CHOICE, NY. Don't make ME be the one to finally run against Joe. I'd lose, but you'd have a CHOICE.
I have a general policy of voting against incumbents. Particularly in New York State. We have the single most corrupt, under-performing state government in the entire nation, according to statistics I read during our annual budget crisis.
(For the non-NYS-residents on my friends list, I will explain briefly. The primary function of a state government is to pass the state budget. It's pretty much All They Have To Do.
For TWENTY YEARS now, New York State's state legislature has failed to do this on time.
Their record is something like FOUR MONTHS LATE.
During this four months, state employees and all organizations that recieve state money must pay their employees with borrowed money.
The interest is paid by who? Taxpayers.
This year the legislators WENT ON VACATION instead of passing the budget. I shit you not. Dozens were ARRESTED for trying to blockade the legislators into the building to make them stay. I speak in caps because I am ANGRY.)
So I went into this with my "when in doubt, vote 'em out!!" pen poised.
They were all running unopposed.
Motherfuckers.
So I added a write-in candidate under my favorite unopposed asshole, Joseph "Pork Barrel " Bruno, whose favorite pastime is to construct things for his cronies using taxpayer money and then name it after himself. There's a stadium, a highway, and innumerable amphitheatres. He even dictated that the baseball stadium (built two miles from an existing stadium also paid for with taxpayer money, that then went bankrupt and had to be closed) should be nicknamed "The Joe". Come ON, you arrogant pigfucker! Give us a goddamn break!
I wrote in:
ANYONE BUT JOE. And drew a box. And put in a big X.
I also refused to vote for the unopposed state Supreme Court justices. Come now, they'll win without me, and I saw no reason to vote for them.
Give me a CHOICE, NY. Don't make ME be the one to finally run against Joe. I'd lose, but you'd have a CHOICE.
