Running for local office...

[King of the Americas]

...anybody here a Counselman, or Mayor?

I am running in my local Mayoral race, for the second time. The first time I ran, I did so as a write-in candidate, but this time my full name will appear on the ballot, with my nick name trailing, not unlike "William Jefferson Clinton (Bill)".

I have decided that my life will be lived seeking and filling executive electorial positions, trying only affect perminate positive change to governing systems and practices, leading us to better days through the implimentation of better ways.

My ultimate goal, being to live up to my name...

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Oh, and I am absolutley penniless, relying only on my 'ideas' to further my cause. I have not yet taken, nor do I wish to ever accept campaign donations. I will fail or succeed, only according to my proven ability to lead.

Anybody here an aspiring politician???

 

[Jocko]

...anybody here a Counselman, or Mayor?

I am running in my local Mayoral race, for the second time. The first time I ran, I did so as a write-in candidate, but this time my full name will appear on the ballot, with my nick name trailing, not unlike "William Jefferson Clinton (Bill)".

Yeah, THAT'S the reason you came in just behind "Error, margin of" last time around. Obviously it was the name.

I have decided that my life will be lived seeking and filling executive electorial positions, trying only affect perminate positive change to governing systems and practices, leading us to better days through the implimentation of better ways.

My ultimate goal, being to live up to my name...

You've dedicated your life to seeing executive electoral positions... so you can be a king.

Hate to break it to you son, you've wasted your life then.

Oh, and I am absolutley penniless, relying only on my 'ideas' to further my cause. I have not yet taken, nor do I wish to ever accept campaign donations. I will fail or succeed, only according to my proven ability to lead.

Your problem isn't lack of funds, it's lack of marbles. The only difference this time around is how your name appears on the ballot, and you seriously expect a different result?

Have you grown professionally or personally in a way that matters to a voter?

Have you clearly communicated a platform, or are you still relying on your trite "days/ways" cliches?

In what ways have you proven yourself a leader? This ought to be a hoot.

Anybody here an aspiring politician???

Certainly not you, that much is certain.

 

[King of the Americas]

To Jocko:

BWAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA!!!

Please refer yourself to a quote by Roosevelt entitled "The Arena".

Indeed, I HAVE made my platform known, and I am preparing myself to take the office, when or if I win...

Is that the best stick you can manage, you goat poker?

 

[CFLarsen]

Well.....

Whatever you do, never run as a Libertarian. They don't get elected to anything else than dog catcher...

What is your political platform?

 

[Donks]

Whatever you do, never run as a Libertarian. They don't get elected to anything else than dog catcher...

What ever happened to the Libertarian plan to move en masse to some small town and run it? Short of starting your own town, that's a good way to guarantee a win. Plus, it would have been an interesting experiment.

 

[hgc]

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Whatever you do, never run as a Libertarian. They don't get elected to anything else than dog catcher...
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I think that conflicts with dog liberty.

 

[hgc]

... relying only on my 'ideas' to further my cause...

I wonder if your ideas about the long lost nuclear technology of the ancients will help get you elected mayor ... of Kakalamania.

 

[Suddenly]

What ever happened to the Libertarian plan to move en masse to some small town and run it? Short of starting your own town, that's a good way to guarantee a win. Plus, it would have been an interesting experiment.

Libertarians have won. Just not very often in contested partisan races.

I think they were going to take over a state. Taking over a town really wouldn't do much good seeing that a town is not considered a seperate soverign, unlike a state.

A state is generally subject to federal law, but I think part of the plan is to challenge a lot of common practice w/r/t that.

 

[CFLarsen]

What ever happened to the Libertarian plan to move en masse to some small town and run it? Short of starting your own town, that's a good way to guarantee a win. Plus, it would have been an interesting experiment.

Given the Libertarian dislike for stupid people, it would be similar to the Cyprus experiment, described in Huxley's "Brave New World":

Mustapha Mond smiled. "Well, you can call it an experiment in rebottling if you like. It began in A.F. 473. The Controllers had the island of Cyprus cleared of all its existing inhabitants and re-colonized with a specially prepared batch of twenty-two thousand Alphas. All agricultural and industrial equipment was handed over to them and they were left to manage their own affairs. The result exactly fulfilled all the theoretical prediotions. The land wasn't properly worked; there were strikes in all the factories; the laws were set at naught, orders disobeyed; all the people detailed for a spell of low-grade work were perpetually intriguing for high-grade jobs, and all the people with high-grade jobs were counter-intriguing at all costs to stay where they were. Within six years they were having a first-class civil war. When nineteen out of the twenty-two thousand had been killed, the survivors unanimously petitioned the World Controllers to resume the government of the island. Which they did. And that was the end of the only society of Alphas that the world has ever seen."

 

[CFLarsen]

I think that conflicts with dog liberty.

It doesn't conflict with Libertarian liberty: Only Libertarians are free to be free. The rest are too stupid, and can either be exploited or left to die.

 

[punchdrunk]

I think they were going to take over a state. Taking over a town really wouldn't do much good seeing that a town is not considered a seperate soverign, unlike a state.

A state is generally subject to federal law, but I think part of the plan is to challenge a lot of common practice w/r/t that.

Following that logic, you know at some point they would want to secede. It's their constitutional right dammit! So which state should we give them? Florida would be my candidate. They're kinda crazy down there anyway. I'm sure New Jersey would be another popular one to give away but I have nothing against them personally. Or we could give them Idaho; no one lives there.

 

[Jocko]

Re: To Jocko:

BWAAAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAA!!!

Such a regal response, surely befitting a king.

Please refer yourself to a quote by Roosevelt entitled "The Arena".

You're recycling your old quotes again... we went through this one four years ago and you still proved yourself a laughingstock.

If he were alive today, Roosevelt would kick your whiny little ass.

Indeed, I HAVE made my platform known, and I am preparing myself to take the office, when or if I win...

Really? Summarize it for me. And be sure to mention what channels you've employed to communicate it to the voters. Do they include that hometown paper of yours that thinks so highly of you?

Is that the best stick you can manage, you goat poker?

I don't poke dead animals. It disturbs the maggots.

 

[Jocko]

Well.....

Whatever you do, never run as a Libertarian. They don't get elected to anything else than dog catcher...

What is your political platform?

Let me put it this way... if KOA was running against a Libertarian (and not just any Libertarian, I mean a gay, down's-syndrome-afflicted, bald, drooling, incomprehensible Libertarian), he'd still lose in a landslide.

KOA has been down this road before. He culled something like 3% (17 votes or whatever that amounts to). He had a brief period of lucidity in which he actually acknowledged where he went wrong, how foolish his assumptions had been and how he would do better next time.

Sad to see that the lucidity didn't last. I mean, his main preoccupation right now is getting ready to take office when he wins. I just hope the post-letdown depression doesn't cross the line into suicidal this time... he came pretty close last go around.

But hey, you can't save everybody.

 

[Quinn]

I have decided that my life will be lived seeking and filling executive electorial positions...

A lot more of the former than the latter, I'm guessing.

 

[shanek]

...anybody here a Counselman, or Mayor?

I am running in my local Mayoral race, for the second time. The first time I ran, I did so as a write-in candidate, but this time my full name will appear on the ballot, with my nick name trailing, not unlike "William Jefferson Clinton (Bill)".

I have decided that my life will be lived seeking and filling executive electorial positions, trying only affect perminate positive change to governing systems and practices, leading us to better days through the implimentation of better ways.

My ultimate goal, being to live up to my name...

Good for you!

 

[shanek]

Re: To Jocko:

Please refer yourself to a quote by Roosevelt entitled "The Arena".

My father's favoritw quote! And BTW, it's Teddy Roosevelt, not FDR, for those of you who are having a hard time finding it.

Indeed, I HAVE made my platform known, and I am preparing myself to take the office, when <strike>or if</strike> I win...

When you win. Talk like a winner if you want to gain respect.

 

[shanek]

I think they were going to take over a state. Taking over a town really wouldn't do much good seeing that a town is not considered a seperate soverign, unlike a state.

www.freestateproject.org

 

[shanek]

KOA has been down this road before. He culled something like 3%

Wow—he broke the 2% barrier his first time out! And as a write-in, too! Nicely done, KOA!

Sad to see that the lucidity didn't last. I mean, his main preoccupation right now is getting ready to take office when he wins.

That has to be the case in order to be taken seriously by the voters. Otherwise, why should they vote for you? "Hey, vote for me! I have no frigging clue what I'll do in office, but don't I run a great campaign?" Does anyone really think that's a winning strategy?

 

[The Fool]

Wow—he broke the 2% barrier his first time out! And as a write-in, too! Nicely done, KOA!

The 2% barrier? Is that like the 2 minute barrier for the 100 yard sprint?
Shane..I'd have thought one TV advert with the candidate wearing a G string and a racoon hat should crack the 2% "barrier"....

 

[Tmy]

The 2% barrier? Is that like the 2 minute barrier for the 100 yard sprint?
Shane..I'd have thought one TV advert with the candidate wearing a G string and a racoon hat should crack the 2% "barrier"....

I think "Homer Simpson" pulls in 2% nationally.

Knabe, try changin your name to "Bush". Hell up here anyone named Kennedy can get elected.