Rig the vote!

[sabotabby]

So you have an election, and now we're going to have an election*, and I'm going to have that thing every year where I get all crusty about the NDP and then working for them anyway**. In the meantime, you can make everyone's day by participating in a decision-making process that your vote can actually influence.

That's right, people. Send gillen to Forks, WA. You know it'll be hilarious and he can eat BELLASAGNA and we can all have lolz.

Do it! Do it now!

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UPDATE: Comrade gillen has suggested that I am displaying Forksist tendencies. So while you are over there voting, make sure to denounce him for his lack of commitment to Sparkle Motion.

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ANOTHER UPDATE: I take it back. Comrade gillen is committed to Sparkle Motion after all, and deserves a commendation from the Party.

* Where should I flee to if Harper gets a majority? Venezuela again?

** Maybe not. Seeing as I'm in Layton's riding, I might vote for the Marxist-Leninists like I threaten to every year.

Comments

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Are you in Trinity-Spadina?

[sabotabby]

I was, and I didn't have all that many reservations volunteering for Olivia Chow. Now I'm in Toronto-Danforth. Really, I don't like Layton or the direction he's taken the party, with the added bonus that he's pretty much guaranteed to win, so I can vote for whoever I want instead of worrying about keeping a Tory or a Liberal out.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Oops. Sorry, I missed your mention of being in Layton's riding.

There's a kick-off of Olivia's campaign this afternoon.

[sabotabby]

And she didn't tell me? I'm hurt! (I'm on her mailing list; usually I hear about these things.)

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Clearly you're outside the circle of trust, now.

[sabotabby]

I don't blame them.

[90pointmetaphor.livejournal.com]

Did you go? I would have except I got the e-mail a few hours too late.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I did. I wasn't there for very long, but I heard the speechiness, and was there for the money hucksterin'.

[sabotabby]

No—as though I have a life outside of school anymore!

[gillen.livejournal.com]

This needs a 'shenanigans' tag.

[sabotabby]

Are you calling them?

P.S. GO TO FORKS.

[gillen.livejournal.com]

I call shenanigans!

P.S. YES MA'AM!

[sabotabby]

Yay!

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

AWESOME avatar!

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

We have our nomination meeting tomorrow, with Alexa quitting just after I moved to the riding, the meanie. I've been being aggressively called & emailed for my vote at the meeting.

You live in Layton's riding? You poor dear. I haaaaate that man. Don's met him and Don haaaates him, too. And Don's much nicer than I am.

[sabotabby]

I suspect they'll be bothering me repeatedly soon. They usually do. I get annoyed.

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I'm planning tea & cookies for the liberal nominee when they decide to come by.

*rubs hands together*

"Gee, I'm just a wee little girl with a wee little girl brain. Maybe you should explain again why Dion decided that doing his job would be a bad thing? I would get fired if I did that, tee hee! Cookie?"

[sabotabby]

I wonder if they'll come by my house! I mean, I am all bougie and part of the establishment now—they may want to solicit my support.

I could bring them up to my room and show them my Maoist kitsch.

[torontoteacher.livejournal.com]

I always invite my Conservative candidates in... I figure if I can string them along and use up resources with repeated calls and visits... it's only a good thing.

[sabotabby]

I...I love the way you think. So much.

[torontoteacher.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that CleverMonkey did his first flyer drop at 2.5 years?

"Don't worry, we're not here for a visit, we're just bringing you your flyers from the Endeeepppeeeee."

[sabotabby]

Hahaha. Sounds like my childhood.

[audrawilliams.livejournal.com]

You got Megan Leslie! Megan Leslie is GREAT!

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I thought her speech was awesome, I really did. She wasn't the person I was backing, but her speech really made me feel good about our candidate. She's very powerful, and I believe in her!

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

I have *four* elections in the next year...

1) Federal, in which my riding's former BC-Liberal MLA Lorne Mayencourt will be running as a (retch) Conservative against Hedy Fry along with NDP candidate Michael Byers. The federal riding includes not only the downtown but chunks of Kitsilano, South Granville and Fairview, which gives every party a chance basically.

2) Provincial byelection, in which candidates in Vancouver-Burrard (entire downtown riding) square off to replace Lorne Mayencourt. The BC Liberals recruited Arthur Griffiths who used to own the Canucks, and the NDP has the young, awesome, adorable Spencer Herbert (http://www.spencerherbert.ca/ - every gay man in Vancouver is hoping his relationship is not a monogamous one). The old grandmothers look at him and think "Aw, he's the grandson I always wanted. I'll vote for him."

3) Municipal election, in which our mayor Sam Sullivan was turfed by his party (it's really weird having municipal political parties, I think), so another guy is running against him, and the leftier party is running Gregor Robertson.

4) Provincial election in May 2009, in which Arthur and Spencer will be squaring off *again*, but this time the riding shrinks to only the West End, so that teh gheys are much more concentrated in the mix of votes... but I won't be in the riding anymore. I'll be grouped with the seniors on the other side of False Creek.

Vancouver's going to be a political gong show through next spring...

[sabotabby]

Vancouver electoral drama is teh funny.

Spencer Herbert is cute! (Not really my type, but just as well. He reminds me a little of the guy in Six Feet Under.)

[queerasmoi.livejournal.com]

Hehe I see what you mean. Yeah he's a cutie. And he speaks very politely but with perfect comebacks.

I think in the Obama era, parties all over the political spectrum will be panicking to churn out good-looking young candidates who have substance.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

//DIES OMG you have totally just MADE MY WEEK.

[sabotabby]

It will make my week when gillen covers himself in sparkles and runs around Forks.

[sabotabby]

P.S. Read the update.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

make sure to denounce him for his lack of commitment to Sparkle Motion

//REALLY dies

We shall reveal his Sparklecrimes to the Sparkle Police!

[sabotabby]

He will be given a Sparkle Show Trial and sentenced to hard labour in the Sparkle Gulag.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Then he can write bestselling memoirs about the Sparkle Archipelago!

[sabotabby]

Really, we are just doing what's best for his writing career.

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

Those who do not sparkle, shall not eat!

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Canada has elections? I thought you guys just wrassled for political office!

:)

I'm fleeing to Switzerland, meself!

I wonder if Obama could take mccain in a wrastling match. I have a feeling Palin might kick ol' Biden's ass. She's in pretty good shape!

[sabotabby]

We have a pine cone/twig-based electoral system.

I think Obama could take McCain, who would last approximately 72 seconds in an Obama headlock. Palin could physically win but if Biden got one punch in, she'd cry foul.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

I know that Palin ran a marathon in under four hours, just several years ago, when she ran in the Anchorage marathon. That's really good for an amateur, so that beeyoitch is in good shape!

She's not the fastest replublican though. Pawlenty has run two sub-four marathons, improving his time by 16 minutes on the second one!

(I got all this from the runners community!)

As for Canada's elections, I was sure wrestling was the electoral basis for the country except in Quebec. (Backgammon maybe for Quebec?)

[billie0.livejournal.com]

I think they should appear on Jeopardy together. We know who would win that... :)

[billie0.livejournal.com]

I'm in a riding where the Liberal's got elected last year after kicking a Tory out. I did vote NDP last time and most likely will again, depending on how close it is by election time.

[sabotabby]

That's always frustrating as hell. I don't think I could bring myself to vote Liberal ever.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I could, but only if my vote were the one deciding vote that would keep a Harperite out of office, and I'd have to do serious penance afterwards. Better a stinkin' Lib than a Harperite, even if that is like saying better to drink Hemlock than to be tarred and feathered.