Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Vote Today!!
Today is one one of the High Holy Days of our democracy.0 comments
I hope you will vote in the elections in your area today, Election Day.
This simple but profound process is what has historically set us apart from much of the rest of the world for almost 300 years.
It's what good men and women have thought worth dying for during most of those 300 years.
It's THAT THING we keep invading countries for lately, all the while saying that THIS is what we're trying to give them.
So, if you are in the Support Our Troops crowd, make sure that you vote as well as pontificate.
I do. It helps build strong bodies twelve ways.
Plus, it gives you total carte blanche to bitch on any issue until the next election.
For those of you here in NYC, I urge you to vote "NO!" on Question 3. As does The New York Times.
The New York Observer carries an attempt to bolster the opposing view.
It carries the basic poor young suburban Republican alone in the bad, big city plaint.
New York simply does not have competitive elections. In many City Council and State Legislative districts, Democrats run without real opposition; in some districts, the Republicans don’t even bother to field candidates. Democrats outnumber Republicans by five to one in New York, and the paucity of non-Democratic officeholders should remind us that the party functions as a virtual monopoly.
Oh, poor baby...
These are among the same people who came here and felled the mightly token and shoved the MetroCard down our throats with no input from the public. Who are trying to fight rent regulations more for the fact that they got here too late to take advantage of them, and are silly enough to allow themselves to be price-gouged, than for any concrete philosophical purposes.
New York has a 5-to-1 Democratic majority because that has always been the preponderant philosophy of the citizenry of this fair city. We're quite aware that we're surrounded by a sea of Republicanism in New Jersey, Long Island and all of upstate. No one needs to remind us.
As New Yorkers, we've mostly all moved here to get away from the people in those areas. Do not think that we'd be happy with their moving here and attempting to make it the same as the rest of the area.
Consider NYC the Eastern Alamo, and we will fight for it.
Too many elections for City Council are decided not on Election Day but in Democratic Party primaries
What an increadibly stupid argument. This scenario is what has always been referred to as "Solidly..." whatever.
In any locale with a 5-to-1 party registration, you're going to have lopsided elections. The real, open fight will always be in the majority's primary, since the general election numbers will always preclude a fair fight.
I seriously doubt I would stand much of a chance running in the general election in counties that are "Solidly Republican" in the South or Midwest. Where even an incompetant maroon like Bush can do no wrong; where he can merely stand there with a basket and just catch the votes.
Well, amigo, New York City is "Solidly Democratic." And that's what galls you.
And you will happily throw Mayor Bloomberg's billions at this fortress, just like you egged on Darrel Issa's millions in California.
Because you can't win in these places in a fair fight.
You can't win it.
So, let's buy it.
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