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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:39 PM
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How many here have a total asshole as mayor of your town or city?
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:40 PM
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1. Ours is actually one of the few Republican politicians that I admire.
He's done a fantastic job. I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:40 PM
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2. our mayor (a D) is great
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 04:40 PM by Kire
the town council, on the other hand, are all assholes (and R's, as well)
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:44 PM
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3. Our town council
Half of them are Perez groupies. :mad:
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:56 PM
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6. D's don't have groupies
not that groupies are good at all, just that D's are less prone to groupthink -- you know what I mean
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:45 PM
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4. I have a great woman Democratic mayor in Athens, GA: Heidi Davsion.
We used to have a two-term Democratic woman Mayor named Gwen O'Looney as well. They are both smart, progressive women. They drive the conservative good old boys crazy! ;)
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jackster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 04:55 PM
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5. nope, but my president is scum
n/t
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Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:02 PM
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7. Our mayor (and hopefully future gov) is great (and cute, too)....
Our current governor is lower than pond scum, though. :-( He's cut from the same cloth as *.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:03 PM
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8. Oh yeah...
Mayor Forgey, Republican lady...super duper pro development, as long as it entails knocking down houses and building $400,000 condos and stores my town doesn't need...sigh. I hate her. x(
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:07 PM
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9. Mayor Bloomberg is a tool
Unfortunately NYC Dems never have their shit together and it looks like we're gonna be in for four more years of this jackass.
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:09 PM
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10. I voted twice for the guy who is our mayor
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 05:09 PM by miss_kitty
once in the election he lost, and once in the election he won. It turns out he's a tool. x(
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BamaGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:32 PM
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11. Oh we do
complete and total ass, city council too. Luckily we just voted most of them out of office. ;)
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Dissenting_Prole Donating Member (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:45 PM
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12. Yeah, we got one, who is aware of peak oil...
and still supports:

1) A new 4-lane highway.
2) A new bridge over the river to divert truck traffic from downtown.
3) A new suburban development that will take our population from 8,000 to 10,0000, complete with "power center".
4) A useless ethanol plant

Thanks Mayor Ron Eddy for ruining us.

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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:50 PM
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13. I live in a suburb that only has an
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 05:52 PM by LibDemAlways
advisory board which reports to the County Board of Supervisors. The local yokels are all a bunch of idiots who spend their monthly meetings patting each other on the back and passing watered down ordinances that aren't enforced.

The County Supervisors are a bunch of political hacks who take money from greedy developers bent on building McMansions and strip malls on every inch of open space.

Recently I had a problem with a neighbor who moved his goddamn limosine company into my quiet residential neighborhood. No one at the local or county level was any help at all. The buck stopped nowhere.

Don't even get me started about the local school board. A bunch of morons who think they have lifetime appointments. One old geezer had served for about 30 years and finally got sick and entered a nursing home. Think he would resign? Think again. He was too sick to attend meetings, but he still ran again, and finally died right before the election. His wife even suggested keeping his seat open for four years in his memory!!

It would be a miracle to find a public servant around here interested in serving the public.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 06:00 PM
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14. The mayor here has had some problems of corruption, to put it mildly.
Richard M. Daley makes the trains run on time and all, but man, has there been some sleaze lately.

I think he's been in power for too long, personally. Maybe it's time for a change soon.
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