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jenn_unpluggedJust received this urgent public health warning from my aunt in an email:
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new and virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him" Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas.
The sad thing is that we have four candidates on the ballot for governor in Texas, and while the Republican candidate has about a third of the vote according to the polls, the rest of the vote is split almost equally between the other three candidates. I'm not sure whether a majority is required to elect a governor here or if a plurality will do, but it's sad to think that two-thirds of the voters don't want to vote for the guy who will likely win. In what universe is that really democracy?
The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new and virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim and pronounced "gonna re-elect him" Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years. Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas.
The sad thing is that we have four candidates on the ballot for governor in Texas, and while the Republican candidate has about a third of the vote according to the polls, the rest of the vote is split almost equally between the other three candidates. I'm not sure whether a majority is required to elect a governor here or if a plurality will do, but it's sad to think that two-thirds of the voters don't want to vote for the guy who will likely win. In what universe is that really democracy?
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Date: 2006-10-10 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 07:12 pm (UTC)Being a Democrat in Texas is like being a member of a third party. Kinky Friedman will get more votes that the Dem candidate will. It's easy to see why people would just give up on the process and not vote at all.
Texas and California
Date: 2006-10-12 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 04:24 pm (UTC)Grandma is so lame - did you see her in the debate? She sounded like a Barbie doll, when you pulled the string in the back, she said the same thing over and over.
I think Chris Bell was the big debate winner. But he's not going to win. I'd never even seen his face before the debate.
Kinky - if elected, he would pick people for his team that are not beholden to him or Big Business, and set out making some major changes. When he wasn't smoking or entertaining that is!
A sad situation overall. Kinky has been concentrating on getting the disaffected vote - the 70% of eligible voters who didn't bother to vote in the last governor's race.
But it still won't be enough to topple Gov. Goodhair.
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Date: 2006-10-10 07:39 pm (UTC)I have no idea which of the non-Perry candidates I'll vote for. I'd prefer to vote for Bell, but I would like my vote to count against Perry in the maximum way possible. So I think I would vote for one of the other two if I thought they had a serious chance of winning.
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Date: 2006-10-11 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-11 06:38 pm (UTC)