Calendar Girl Blog: Vote
We, the slightly frozen, thanks to global warming, have more elections than most countries due to our diversity in views. A majority government is just too darn hard to come by, what with gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, gun registries, abortion rights and stuff that gets into peoples craw.
I'm fine with minority governments. In fact, I'm pretty darn nervous of majority sweeps. My party of choice has never been in the majority. So a minority is the only way a peep of my voice gets heard.
I'm thinking it was the election before this election...say 2 year's ago, when that minority government was getting weak at the knees and a new race started to look inevitable. As it occasionally does, my phone rang.
It was the local federal folks for the NDP. They were wondering, actually inviting me to throw in my hat, the orange fuzzy one I think, and run for the NDP nomination in Guelph. My response, after expressing my true appreciation, was quick and polite. No thank you. They twisted a bit. I stuck to my answer.
Yet just the same, I wandered around for more than a few days imagining me, running.
And, I don't run.
If I were to set my foot on the stage of a political arena, it will be on the municipal level. I've joked that when I'm 65, I will take a crack at the top spot of Mayor. It's what our current mayor did, and despite not being the best person for the job, she won. So, with that template in my cranial back room, I continue to keep abreast (or two) of my community.
So then, Calendar Girl would like to make a request. If you are eligible to vote in Monday's election, please get yer butt to a polling station and plant an x on a ballot. If you don't know who to vote for, Calendar Girl, in one of her other forms, has shared her thoughts.
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Tags: Calendar Girl Blog, Breast of Canada Calendar , vote.
I'm fine with minority governments. In fact, I'm pretty darn nervous of majority sweeps. My party of choice has never been in the majority. So a minority is the only way a peep of my voice gets heard.
I'm thinking it was the election before this election...say 2 year's ago, when that minority government was getting weak at the knees and a new race started to look inevitable. As it occasionally does, my phone rang.
It was the local federal folks for the NDP. They were wondering, actually inviting me to throw in my hat, the orange fuzzy one I think, and run for the NDP nomination in Guelph. My response, after expressing my true appreciation, was quick and polite. No thank you. They twisted a bit. I stuck to my answer.
Yet just the same, I wandered around for more than a few days imagining me, running.
And, I don't run.
If I were to set my foot on the stage of a political arena, it will be on the municipal level. I've joked that when I'm 65, I will take a crack at the top spot of Mayor. It's what our current mayor did, and despite not being the best person for the job, she won. So, with that template in my cranial back room, I continue to keep abreast (or two) of my community.
So then, Calendar Girl would like to make a request. If you are eligible to vote in Monday's election, please get yer butt to a polling station and plant an x on a ballot. If you don't know who to vote for, Calendar Girl, in one of her other forms, has shared her thoughts.
Calendar Girl
Tags: Calendar Girl Blog, Breast of Canada Calendar , vote.
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