If I don't know you, I'm not voting for you
Because we'll be in Jacksonville for our primary later this month, Steve and I requested absentee ballots. We got them in yesterday's mail and I've spent the last hour or so doing research on the candidates I hadn't already learned about. One thing really annoys me: Lack of information. Isn't it the most basic of concepts that if you want a bunch of people to vote for you, you should at the very least make the people aware of you?!
Apparently not around here. The number of candidates who offer no information about their histories, goals, experience, values, etc., is staggering. I was looking at the information the candidates supplied to the elections office. One woman had an impressive amount of donations already accrued, but she didn't provide any information. Unlike many of my fellow Americans, I don't vote based on what the media tells me or where my dart hits the board. I realize they're all politicians, and therefore are most-likely lying through their teeth (or at least spinning their stories like mad), but I find it most annoying when a candidate doesn't even bother.
So if I can't find out anything about you, I'm not voting for you. Which means I'm not voting for two races at all, because not a single candidate has anything out there! Then again, it's for the State Committeeman and State Committewomen. Who cares what the state party does, anyway? It's not like any of them actually represents the best interests of the people.
Another trend I spotted for the circuit judge race was glitz. Two candidates for two different districts had really glossy websites with really lofty words and high-level endorsements . . . that said absolutely nothing of value. And one person touted an endorsement from a crooken sherriff I'm most anxious to get out of office, so he didn't really help his cause much.
I am, at long last, done with my ballot. I hope I've picked well. It would have been nice if the candidates had helped. There is more to an election than paying the fee to get your name on the ballot. And frankly, if you can't be bothered to make an effort to get elected, what are you going to do if you're actually in office?
Stupid politicians.
Apparently not around here. The number of candidates who offer no information about their histories, goals, experience, values, etc., is staggering. I was looking at the information the candidates supplied to the elections office. One woman had an impressive amount of donations already accrued, but she didn't provide any information. Unlike many of my fellow Americans, I don't vote based on what the media tells me or where my dart hits the board. I realize they're all politicians, and therefore are most-likely lying through their teeth (or at least spinning their stories like mad), but I find it most annoying when a candidate doesn't even bother.
So if I can't find out anything about you, I'm not voting for you. Which means I'm not voting for two races at all, because not a single candidate has anything out there! Then again, it's for the State Committeeman and State Committewomen. Who cares what the state party does, anyway? It's not like any of them actually represents the best interests of the people.
Another trend I spotted for the circuit judge race was glitz. Two candidates for two different districts had really glossy websites with really lofty words and high-level endorsements . . . that said absolutely nothing of value. And one person touted an endorsement from a crooken sherriff I'm most anxious to get out of office, so he didn't really help his cause much.
I am, at long last, done with my ballot. I hope I've picked well. It would have been nice if the candidates had helped. There is more to an election than paying the fee to get your name on the ballot. And frankly, if you can't be bothered to make an effort to get elected, what are you going to do if you're actually in office?
Stupid politicians.
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