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Right. So, Carla Marinucci over at the Comical reports that this fella, Damon Dunn, who is running for Secretary of State, has admitted that he has only voted like once in his entire 33 years on this lonely planet. This of course automatically qualifies him for membership in the He-Man's-Bad-Citizens-Who-Think-They-Should-Be-Our-Leaders Club along with our favorite local career gals, Carly Fiorina (club president) and Meg "Lieberwoman" Whitman (club janitor). Maybe Dunn can be club treasurer. As you will recall, Ms. Whitman, was far too busy raising children while gazing adoringly at her husband's career to bother doing her civic duty, and Ms. Fiorina? Well, who knows? Perhaps she was too busy counting her American dollars to bother dragging her backside down to the nearest friendly polling place. Dunn's explanation for his bad citizenship? He grew up as a poor! Um, no excuse!
New rule - if you have never bothered to make a good habit of actually exercising your right to vote, then you should be banned for life from the bad habit of running for office. Sound like a plan?
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what's his real crime, Chris? Is he an eeeevil Republican (tm) or is it that he was a big dumb (Dallas Cowboys) football player?
Its "OK" to attack women and minorities if a they have an (R) by their name.
why can't you see past sex or race, missiondweller? your unabashed political correctness is just too much!
trigger math nerdz talking about how statistically insignificant one vote is or something
Someone who's refused to vote in any election wants to be in charge of running all elections for the state. @missiondweller, ironic gold like that transcends party, race, and gender.
Voting and Taxes are for poor people.
Maybe he got tired of pissing his votes away on republicans who didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning anyway.
You indignant asses , what makes you think that if you VOTED your whole life you are qualified to do anything???? , the mornons in WASHINGTON prove that... Someone who did not vote is neither a good or bad leader ... Shit Pelosi voted her whole life and he's as close to a idiot as they come.
But she probably says "an idiot", not "a idiot"...
Yeah, you shouldn't judge a person running to be the State's chief voting officer based on whether or not they've ever . . . um . . . voted.
to be sure, he could be an asset in figuring out how to get non-voters to vote.
The complete inability of the California Republican Party to vet candidates is a thing of beauty to observe.
That ought not to be a reply to spysea; sorry.
BWAHAHAHA A NERVE HAS BEEN HIT! Cry moar, neocon!
What's a "mornons"?
And "Shit Pelosi voted her whole life and he's as" could you at least get pronoun agreement?
Mmmkay?
Hm, I'm bothered by this.
Deeply bothered by this.
Seriously, there are issues with the level of wit in your post, Chris. It's too easy to make fun of non-voters, especially when you're preaching to the choir that is the SFist audience. Precisely because it's easy to make fun of non-voters, the wit should have been increased, not decreased or maintained (I am unfamiliar with your baseline wit level).
Sigh.
Who?
Why should anyone put their confidence in a person who has not actively participated in the democratic process themselves?
Not only should one vote I believe every citizen should get their hands dirty and be a poll worker at least once.
As a poll worker, I endorse this statement. It doesn't take up much of my time (YMMV of course), plus there is a positive civic-minded glow about being part of the process.
My theory on this is maybe, if they were to try to pick the people that have been active in republican politics at the precinct level, they would be left with nothing but cranks. If they were to try to pick Republicans that have held elective office, there are not very many. So they are left with bidnismen and women like this guy, and Fiorina, and Whitman, and (until he somehow got elected to something) Poizner, and Schwartzenegger (who is apparently liked by everyone who has ever met him in person, even Ammiano, it seems.)
So if I only played in one football game before, I could join his team?
of course it's not OK to EVER say anything bad about women or minorities. it's much better to walk on eggshells and hope for the best.