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Message 987908 - Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 2:49:06 UTC

I've got local elections coming up, so it is time for me to explain how to make a choice at the ballot box.

You need to start a couple of weeks before the election, as soon as the first mailer shows up. Get a shoe box and toss it in. As each new one arrives do the same. If you get a robot call write 1 oz and the candidate's name on it and toss it in the box. If you hear a radio ad, write 2 oz and the name and toss it in. If you see a TV ad, write 5 oz and the name and toss it in.

Day before sort them out into piles. Weigh them and include the weights on the slips for the calls, radio and TV ads in the total.

Here is where the important part comes in. Realize the guy with the most ads for him took the most special interest money -- bribes -- to get elected. The one with the least took the least and is most likely to actually do the people's business. Vote for him.

If everyone adopted this method it would completely neuter special interests.

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Message 987944 - Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 3:34:43 UTC - in response to Message 987908.  

to true. or the guy that spent the least is a crackpot that nobody in their right mind would give money to


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Message 987994 - Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 5:38:35 UTC

How about making a list for each of all the ways they are going to improve your life and voting for the one with the shortest list?
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Message 988063 - Posted: 10 Apr 2010, 14:28:27 UTC - in response to Message 987994.  

How about making a list for each of all the ways they are going to improve your life and voting for the one with the shortest list?

I think you would find all the lists with zero entries, they only tell you how big a crook the other guy is now.

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Message 1001416 - Posted: 7 Jun 2010, 3:26:37 UTC - in response to Message 987908.  

I've got local elections coming up, so it is time for me to explain how to make a choice at the ballot box.

You need to start a couple of weeks before the election, as soon as the first mailer shows up. Get a shoe box and toss it in. As each new one arrives do the same. If you get a robot call write 1 oz and the candidate's name on it and toss it in the box. If you hear a radio ad, write 2 oz and the name and toss it in. If you see a TV ad, write 5 oz and the name and toss it in.

Day before sort them out into piles. Weigh them and include the weights on the slips for the calls, radio and TV ads in the total.

Here is where the important part comes in. Realize the guy with the most ads for him took the most special interest money -- bribes -- to get elected. The one with the least took the least and is most likely to actually do the people's business. Vote for him.

If everyone adopted this method it would completely neuter special interests.

Seeing as how election day is Tuesday, I thought I bump this.

With the SCOTUS ruling letting anyone spend any amount on the election and the hundreds of robo calls I've gotten in the last couple of weeks and the constant bombardment of radio and TV ads, I tell you all again; Use my method to pick who you vote for. It is the only way that will work!

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Message 1001514 - Posted: 7 Jun 2010, 17:10:44 UTC - in response to Message 1001416.  

I've got local elections coming up, so it is time for me to explain how to make a choice at the ballot box.

You need to start a couple of weeks before the election, as soon as the first mailer shows up. Get a shoe box and toss it in. As each new one arrives do the same. If you get a robot call write 1 oz and the candidate's name on it and toss it in the box. If you hear a radio ad, write 2 oz and the name and toss it in. If you see a TV ad, write 5 oz and the name and toss it in.

Day before sort them out into piles. Weigh them and include the weights on the slips for the calls, radio and TV ads in the total.

Here is where the important part comes in. Realize the guy with the most ads for him took the most special interest money -- bribes -- to get elected. The one with the least took the least and is most likely to actually do the people's business. Vote for him.

If everyone adopted this method it would completely neuter special interests.

Seeing as how election day is Tuesday, I thought I bump this.

With the SCOTUS ruling letting anyone spend any amount on the election and the hundreds of robo calls I've gotten in the last couple of weeks and the constant bombardment of radio and TV ads, I tell you all again; Use my method to pick who you vote for. It is the only way that will work!

I've been getting them too, From both Republican camps and I'm not registered as a republican... But then I don't support those Who pander to the far right.
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