Those of you familiar with my lingering hypothetical political ambitions will see why the new boundaries of the 9th District are so promising: all the areas added this year voted Republican in the 2010 House races. And what is the GOP doing with this promise? Running these people.
Remember the primary candidate from a few years ago whose entire platform consisted in opposing toll booths? He's evidently been reincarnated in this Atanus woman, who, in addition to claiming that market downturns are lies fabricated by "the Elite," is also unable to write in complete sentences. The other guy, after we put aside some minor grammatical errors, is a kind of acceptable fluffball, more interested in laying out his inarticulate political philosophy than any specific policies. "I believe in American Exceptionalism. This country was created with the idea of a specific destiny – that is to be an exceptional country based upon our unique American political system." Our destiny is to be exceptional based on our uniqueness. And, he would like to simplify the tax code somehow. Well, ok.
Why again am I not living in Skokie right now? The Joel Pollak strategy deserves a reprise effort under new conditions. Or at least, it deserves one more than the anti-tollbooth strategy does.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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Toll booths kill. About 8 people die per year on the Mass Pike at the toll booths, which is a high price to pay to collect taxes in coins and small notes.
Possibly, although I'm not sure that was the exact case he made.
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