If one more person says: “You have to put good people in office” I am going to smack that person or, more likely, barf on them.
I am so sick of hearing that. When most people don't vote and most of those that do, do not read the paper or follow anything except their own shadow and they vote for any name they halfway recognize or sounds ethnically or racially like themselves. Then to make matters worse, we have district voting, overturned campaign financing reform and lobbyists with barrels of money. You can’t get good, honest people in office under these circumstances. So stupid letter writer from Broward in today’s Miami Herald who says, Clean up Miami, we already know what you are saying. We tried to recall the most horrid of County Commissioner's, the Vile Natacha Seijas. You can't get them out: District voting! So stop telling us what we already know, we can’t change it. Give us about $700,000 for a City of Miami election/recall and about a million for a county election, and maybe we could.
Example, the Herald said today that Marco Rubio’s brother “Mario” is going to run for office. Don’t we also have a gaggle of Diaz de la Portilla's in office? Now more Rubio’s? Two Meeks? That is one of the ways to get in office: have the "name."
Maybe Rebecca Wakefield of “The SunPost” has the answer: Voting Is Cool! It’s Our Fault Our Politicians Generally Suck. Now This Columnist Wants to Do Something About It. She says:
“Year in and year out, it’s the same story. A handful of the usual suspects (plus one or two grass-roots candidates who usually don’t have a shot) hires someone from the small group of political consultants who run nearly every local election.” She goes on to describe our broken system of why we get shitty people in office over and over, her reason why:
“It works because most of the rest of the populace doesn’t vote.” She says 10% to 15% vote in most elections.
Her goal is to get the people out to vote with fun events:
“Take a Politician Bowling” night and “Beach Ballot Bingo.” We’ll also be doing limo rides to the polls and red carpet exit polling, among other nutty stunts. The idea in general is simply to have fun, connect with people and get them thinking about local politics.”
I wish you, Celeste Fraser Delgado and GenerationEngage luck Rebecca, and yes I love your idea to get more people to vote. Any idea is good and I hope the outcome will shut up those annoying people who say: “Just vote good people into office.”
Read the article.
5 comments:
With Rubio's statewide favorability level competing with that of President Bush, the name isn't going to warm voters up to him. What it will do though is give him connections for special interest fundraising. That's just one more hole in the system that needs patching.
We need a person who will rant and rave and lie like crazy to get the majority of dumb, dumb citizens to vote. Then once he is in office he must become honest but not afraid to point out all the crooks serving with him. He will know he will never get reelected but if he can upset things enough during his term, maybe, just maybe, more people will pay attention and vote. It will be difficult to find this person, but once we can nominate him he can use his ability to lie like crazy to get lots of money behind him.
All Righty then. Once we get them to the polls, who is going to make sure they can bubble in the little bubbles?
You can't just ship them in a limo with that cheat sheet, you need to educate them... a red carpet ride will not educate them.
I would rather have voters go and vote who actually know something about the person and who are not voting from a herald editorial cut out.
The problem last anon is the voters that vote are just being carted there after a free breakfast or lunch by their candidate. Mayor Diaz has giant paella parties at the Convention Center.
you can't possibly thing they know anything.
The PTA gets some cash and tells all of its members, this is hw they get votes. Not for being good commissioners but by buying votes...
Natacha's favorite you will lose your free breakfast without me.
I thought the breakfast thing was bribery and should have been treated as such. Buying breakfasts, lunches and then carting you off to vote certainly sends a message to the meal guest. Of course, we could all to partake the meals and pretend to vote :)
Did the strong mayor do these things?
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