why i heart bill white…

being a commiepinkoliberalpaganheatheninfidelevildemonspawn (all tags given to me by ~them~), i’m usually fairly cynical when it comes to politics and politicians in general.  i am the far left.  no, i’m not a loon.  i’m not crazy.  much.  but i am aware that my philosophy on “life, the universe, and everything in it” is way over to the left in the “here be dragons” section of most political spectrums.  (42 is WAY out there, ya’ll.)  i really do want change, but i despair of ever seeing any meaningful changes as long as our political landscape remains as it is.

enter former mayor bill white.  he gives me hope.

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Tagged as: elections2010,billwhiterules March 03, 2010 @ 01:16 pm

yesterday’s primary elections…

yesterday were the primary elections and, while i was pretty certain that it would be a bill white victory and that my vote wasn’t really necessary, i heart him too much to pass up the opportunity to cast a vote for him.

i went to the houston chronicle to verify my polling location, but surprise! their link didn’t work.  (harrisvotes.com works.  harrisvotes.org never works - the domain forwarding is screwy, apparently.)

so i go to the harrisvotes.com site directly and look up polling locations.  republicans vote in the community center, democrats in the school next door, according to it.

i get to the school and there’s a sign on the door, “republican primary”.  another woman walks up, says she just went to the community center, but that it was only for the republican primary.  several other people have walked up by this time and now we’re all confused.  WTF IS TEH DEMOCRATS?

we finally go in and ask where we’re supposed to be voting, if both locations are for the republican primary.  oh!  right here.  at the school.  where it’s clearly labeled “republican primary”.  so yeah, THAT’S not confusing at all.  (they had both republicans and democrats at the school location, but only republicans in the community center… wtf?  also, 1 of the 6 machines for the democrat primary wasn’t working.  GO FIGURE.)

it’s like they don’t want democrats to even be able to vote.  had someone come out and stated that democrats vote the following day, i’d not have been surprised.

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Tagged as: elections2010,billwhiterules,wtfdemocrats March 03, 2010 @ 11:22 am