Here in NY (as well as AZ, DE, DC, MD, MN, NH, RI, and VT, I believe), it’s Primary Day (aka, the first opportunity I have to plant the kiss of death on scandidate by voting for them; I don’t exactly have a very good track record with elections). I never used to get to vote in the Primary, because, for years (ever since I first registered) I was a proudly registered “no preference,” and here in NY State, that means you can’t vote until the General. But then the Republicans impeached Clinton, and that was such a useless, stupid, time and money wasting exercise, that I figured, goshdarnit, I’m gonna register as a Democrat. For some reason, here in NY it takes like a year when you change your party affiliation for you to become eligible to vote in the Primary, and the first Primary I actually wound up voting in was for the 2004 election, when I voted for Howard Dean, who promptly got stomped. Sorry, Howie.<\/p>\n
So, today, I’ll go out and cast my symbolic votes for a slate full of candidates who (realistically) haven’t a prayer of getting nominated, let alone winning in November. Jonathan Tasini has my vote (to be honest, I’d have preferred Steve Greenfield) over Hillary. Sean Patrick Maloney will get my vote for Attorney General (looks like Andy Cuomo in a landslide, and, even if he loses, it’ll be to Mark Green, and not Maloney). The only “winner” I’m going for this time around is Eliot Spitzer for Governor. I’m sure there’ll be someone out there to tell me why he’s not worthy, but he’s made a career (at least as AG) of going after corporate corruption, is for gay marriage (in a debate with his opponent, Tom Suozzi – who is for “civil unions” – Suozzi said something to the effect that their differences were just a matter of semantics, to which Spitzer turned to Suozzi and replied, “it isn’t about semantics. It’s about equality”), and, well, he’s gonna crush whichever chump the Republicans put up against him anyway (and we haven’t had a Jewish Governor here in NY since Herb Lehman, the new-deal Democrat, Liberal, and Labor man who succeeded FDR, way back when, – so I reckon it’s about time). It’ll be awfully nice to get rid of George Putztaki, at the very least.<\/p>\n
Plus, I dodged the Jury Duty bullet for at least another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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