I got an e-mail from Andy Cuomo yesterday, wishing me a Happy Father’s Day. It was really from him, too, because they pasted a picture of his signature to it, and it was addressed to “Dear Friend” so it was personal. Mostly he told me how great it was to be the father of three daughters and what an inspiration his father was to him (Mario would probably be rolling in his grave, except for the fact that he isn’t dead yet). I don’t really give a shit, Andy. You want me to have a happy Father’s Day? Legalize pot.
I get a lot of mail from “Team Andy” (he doesn’t usually sign them personally, though). The latest one (before yesterday) was to tell my that the US Chamber of Commerce had praised Governor Snotball’s economic reforms. Oh, goody; I have so much love and respect for the US CoC.
Otherwise, yesterday was pretty uneventful. I split a bunch of wood, did my laundry, fixed a couple of things around the house, that was pretty much it. The flush lever in the toilet broke off, so now I have to reach into the tank and pull the chain by hand. I suppose I ought to go buy a new one.
But for now, I guess it’s back to work.
States like Florida could certainly learn from NY. Instead of limiting early voting they can simply keep it a secret.
Before I called the Bd of Elections in Brooklyn I went to their website. Nowhere was early voting mentioned. On the list of clickable info there was no category that even obliquely alluded to early voting.
A blog post on PowerPop on graduates of the Syracuse music scene:
http://powerpop.blogspot.com/2012/06/boys-from-syracuse.html
including Tom Kenny and Bobcat Goldthwaite
I went to try out NY’s early voting and it was exactly what one would expect of the Bd of Elections in Brooklyn. First they tried to tell me that I needed to be sure I would not be in the city on election day. Then they decided I should get an absentee ballot and then they decided that there was no primary for my congresswoman. It all took about 1/2 hour. Of course there was no one else there but about 6 slow and confused people ran around asking each other what to do. And, finally, I gave up. Tomorrow I’ll call Valazquez’s office and tell them what happened. I’m sure they’ll be surprised to learn about early voting and not at all surprised about the Bd of Elections.
I just have a permanent absentee ballot that gets mailed to me for every election which I usually hand deliver to a polling place on election day. My sister who did some election work in VA is shocked that I don’t have to be out of town on election day to do this.
It wouldn’t be such a bad idea to have elections that lasted several days and perhaps on weekends. Of course, that might increase participation which is contrary to the current desires of some.
I called Nydia Valazquez’s office and they were not surprised at the ineptitude of the Bd of Elections. But, I still don’t get to vote because I can’t get to Brooklyn again before election day.
The employees at the Bd are all political appointees. 50% Dems and 50% Republicans. None of them could get an equivalent job without the patronage.
Sometimes you get a moment on Morning Jerk
OOPS! A hustling hypocrite gets hoisted. He’s stealing from his merkin head son’s future.
Sam Stein nails Ron Paul
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