No Excuses
It's Primary Day! I'm off to vote and join the Green Party for about 3 minutes.
Polls are open late, so make time to get there today. You can find your polling place here.
I'm going to kick back tonight and celebrate democracy with a Sam Adams (Brewer. Patriot.) and hopefully watch the political careers of John Harwood and Garry Reilly come to a quick end. You guys have to make it happen, though. Get to it!
UPDATE: I just came from voting in a booth for the first time in my life. I don't know what happened to the old booths with the curtains I remember from when I was a kid, but I liked those better than the plastic stand I stood at to connect my arrows. After marking your ballot you have to feed it into a machine that reminds me a little too much of a paper shredder. Still, this beats absentee voting any day.
Also, I think I am going to lodge a complaint because of voter intimidation. Every single poll worker gave me crap for not rooting for the Yankees. Luckily I know my rights and stood firm for democracy and the Red Sox Nation. At least I got to rub it in that the Evil Empire took an embarrassing 13-run shellacking yesterday.
It was early, of course, but my vote in the Green Party primary was the only Green vote cast. I am predicting 500 votes city-wide. I bet Cranston is jumping, though…
September 14th, 2004 at 11:02 am
I don’t think any of my races are contested (it was damn hard for me to come to that conclusion, could this primary be any more stealthy?!).
I am looking ahead to the general election though. I’m looking at the Green Party candidate for Senate, not that he has a chance in hell of dislodging Caprio from his Federal Hill seat. I wouldn’t be surprised to find they renamed it Caprio Hill.
September 16th, 2004 at 7:34 pm
Yankees? I don’t know much about sports, but isn’t there something in the state Constitution about burning suspected Yankees fans at the stake?