I’ve heard it said that running for
political office should disqualify one for the job. I subscribe to this notion,
albeit from the cynical perspective that you’d have to be a fool to want most
of those jobs on their own merits and a snake to want them with an agenda.
So
where does that leave us? Like Diogenes looking for an honest man with a
lantern in broad daylight? Could be.
With
that in mind, let me tell you about my 2014 mid-term election experience.
There
was a senate race in my state between a reactionary crackpot and a lazy
opportunistic creep and a county attorney race where an arrogant two-fisted thief
was running uncontested. I stared at them for a while and thought about smoking
and necessary evils. I looked at the blanks underneath and smiled. I wrote
myself in on both contests.
Did
I throw away my votes? Possibly. But only because others, faced with the same unpalatable
choice, were not doing the same thing.
So,
here I am, offering an alternative to voting badly and wasting it entirely. I
don’t want political office, but, if you can’t make a choice from the ballot,
choose me. Do it by the hundreds and thousands. Say, with simple elegance that
we need someone better, but we aren’t sitting home doing nothing.
PS.
I am also looking for input. Does anyone know what the impact of a write-in
winner would be? I don’t see how a machine could count hand-written replies, so
I’m guessing it would require a manual recount. Then, if there is a clear
winner, I would hope that a new election would be held for that office. I would
further hope that anyone beaten under such circumstances would have the good
grace not to run again.
Let
me know what you know. Let me know what you think.https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matthew-Alan-Moody-Write-In-Candidate/373093649515833?fref=nf
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