Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Reply #120 –
The state representative race in my district is heating up.
The Democrat incumbent's campaign literature is getting increasingly strident, warning that if the Republican challenger wins her Tea Party cohorts will summarily throw old people out into the streets and see to it that wives are beaten by their husbands, children become homeless, plagues of locusts swarm up even in Winter-- which will be more harsh and brutal by the way-- and the Chicago Cubs won't win the pennant again this year. That last looks to actually happen by the way, seems the Cubs just can't catch a break.
The challenger's campaign literature promises that if she is elected-- even in spite of all that bad stuff she's supposedly going to do-- she will help get rid of cronyism and lifetime political service in Springfield... or something like that. They all promise stuff like that before the election, then once they're elected they always seem to be as adept at stuffing their pockets with taxpayer dollars as the person they replaced was. So--- we'll see.
I'm waiting for the mud-wrestling tournament. Pay-per-view as these two women square off against each other. Well, we can always dream, can't we?
The next election cycle for this office is in two years. Maybe I should run. Campaign on the usual platforms of dealing with corruption in Springfield, politicians that serve for life or until retirement whichever comes first, and the way tax dollars are just wasted in state government. I can run on demanding my fair share of the fraud and corruption.
I wonder if I'd get elected--- or arrested. Might be interesting to see, eh?