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Albany Budget - The Joke that keeps giving | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 hidden)
Bad idea (none / 0) (#20)
by Tom Paine on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 11:20:21 AM EST
Yup, that would be funny. But when you're done laughing think about how much it will create sympathy for the very people you're trying to move out of the council, and how much harder you'll make that job.

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The Politics of Sympathy (none / 0) (#23)
by Roscoe on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 12:02:46 PM EST
Yeah Tom P., I can grok your meaning.  After all, what group of people is more sympathetic than politicians?  Particularly in Albany, where most of political food chain is either corrupt, or tainted with corruption.

Yup, gotta watch out for that sympathy vote, Yup, Yup.  Uhuh. Sure.

Maybe you're commenting on negative backlash from negative campaigning? Who's campaigning?

Do you realize (maybe you don't) that most of the people in Albany DON'T vote because there's no one to vote for, and the current state of play is actually decided by a very small number of primary voters?

If a slate of good people, committed to change and the welfare of the people, were on the ballot, would you vote for the status quo so as not to offend the sympathies of thieves and scoundrels?

Come on man, live up to your screen moniker.

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Voters (none / 0) (#24)
by Tom Paine on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 12:15:03 PM EST
I'm going to take a wild guess here that most people don't vote because....'why bother?'. And many of those who do aren't particularly well-informed. People who actually get into this are a tiny minority.

So in that context, getting labeled as the guy who mails condoms to people he doesn't like is like running a marathon carrying a case of beer on your shoulder. Good for a laugh but then it'll be a real drag.

Yeah, 'sympathy' was perhaps the wrong word to use in my post above, but I hope I've explained better what I meant. If you were given the choice of two people you knew nothing about, except one of them pulled off a junior-high prank, who would you vote for?

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clarification... (none / 0) (#26)
by makome on Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 01:58:37 PM EST
to clarify, I liked DIA's rubber stamp idea, not Roscoe's condom idea...

Mak

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