(Agreed.) I've been wondering which is worse: not voting due to apathy, or voting but not being able to make an informed choice (so you just pick the people you've heard of).
I almost always vote in municipal elections, and I try to learn what I can about the candidates. But I find that other than the highest profile position, it's almost impossible to get any sense of who's best qualified without personally going to every public meeting and meeting and talking with candidates personally - something most of us don't have time to do.
Campaign literature is basically useless. Newspapers are the most help but again, they can only provide analysis of the highest profile positions. Don't know what the answer is, but there's certainly a problem.
Maybe you should consider a post in city government. It seems a great deal less arduous than boxing and you'll get more 'ink than an extra in a movie. Just a thought, I'd vote for you.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Anon number 2. Couldn't be a politician - way too forthright, much too mouthy. And as hard as I try, I just can't talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time. Or my butt.
There may be an art to being a politician. But there sure isn't much grace.
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Amen.
(Agreed.) I've been wondering which is worse: not voting due to apathy, or voting but not being able to make an informed choice (so you just pick the people you've heard of).
I almost always vote in municipal elections, and I try to learn what I can about the candidates. But I find that other than the highest profile position, it's almost impossible to get any sense of who's best qualified without personally going to every public meeting and meeting and talking with candidates personally - something most of us don't have time to do.
Campaign literature is basically useless. Newspapers are the most help but again, they can only provide analysis of the highest profile positions. Don't know what the answer is, but there's certainly a problem.
Maybe you should consider a post in city government. It seems a great deal less arduous than boxing and you'll get more 'ink
than an extra in a movie. Just a thought, I'd vote for you.
maybe the new mayor will take you out for dinner at Swiss Chalet...oops......not classy enough.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Anon number 2. Couldn't be a politician - way too forthright, much too mouthy. And as hard as I try, I just can't talk out of both sides of my mouth at the same time. Or my butt.
There may be an art to being a politician. But there sure isn't much grace.
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