chickengen: election day McRantypants: "
so i'm clearly one of the most hard core democrats among any of you who read my blog. however, i REALLY dig this guy. i mean, mark rauterkus has a blog!
relax everyone who doesn't know who mark rauterkus is, and thinks that i have suddenly begun to support a republican. i'm from pittsburgh, people. why, mark rauterkus is a very special libertarian. he's running for PA senate in the 42nd disctrict and he's rull dahn ta urth. he's all about parks and the arts and he's from the south side and i like that.
check it out, seriously: http://rauterkus.blogspot.com/
michael lamb supports rauterkus. but i still think michael lamb is mildly retarded.
an entry to mark's blog. i am in love with this man:
title: Big week -- and today's my birthday!"
Friday, June 17, 2005
chickengen: election day McRantypants
Some nice comments from another blogger published just before election day:
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Current mood: determined
election day McRantypants
"Pintek joked that the "Republican lever is broken" in Pittsburgh voting machines."
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"Fontana should win tomorrow, but Diven is the kind of Republican who can pull an upset. The Rs think their man is up by two points, while the Dems think Fontana is ahead by double digits. Sadly, the race has come down to trivial accusations that sometimes border on the laughable. Diven shows a picture with his fiancee and some kids (not his own), and somehow he's committed some campaign fraud. Fontana, one of 15 members of county council and the most outspoken against reassessments and former Allegheny County chief executive Jim Roddey (R), is somehow the author of every action in the county that raised property assessments. It's almost enough to make you vote Libertarian!"
so i'm clearly one of the most hard core democrats among any of you who read my blog. however, i REALLY dig this guy. i mean, mark rauterkus has a blog!
relax everyone who doesn't know who mark rauterkus is, and thinks that i have suddenly begun to support a republican. i'm from pittsburgh, people. why, mark rauterkus is a very special libertarian. he's running for PA senate in the 42nd disctrict and he's rull dahn ta urth. he's all about parks and the arts and he's from the south side and i like that.
check it out, seriously: http://rauterkus.blogspot.com/
michael lamb supports rauterkus. but i still think michael lamb is mildly retarded.
an entry to mark's blog. i am in love with this man:
title: Big week -- and today's my birthday!
Big week.
Today, Monday, May 16 -- its my birthday. Born in the Year of the Rooster. And this year is also the Year of the Rooster!
Tomorrow, May 17 -- Election Day! Vote for the third option in the Senate Special Election.
May 18 -- My wife, kids and I get on a plane with passports! Housesitters move in -- by the way.
May 19 -- The new Star Wars Movie!
FYI, my blogging is going to slow a great deal in the next four weeks. Feel free to chat among yourselves. Drop me a note if to alert me of important happenings.
# posted by Mark Rauterkus @ 10:28 PM
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in other news,
DID YOU KNOW? that bob o'connor didn't even go to college? YES he did go to taylor allderdice highschool (um, my highschool)-- but voting for him somehow would feel like voting for an unqualified, friendly greenfielder who will have to perform way too many favors for way too many people. shake the hands of all the yinzers you like, bob. hold signs on beechwood blvd. and smile as fielders-- who have just picked up an ice cream cone from bruster's en at-- honk at you from their hooked up honda civics or oversized buicks.
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bob o'connor (does everyone else see through this douche?):
"At a Good Friday fish fry in Morningside, O'Connor bumps into a heavy young boy leaving the gym. 'Hey, big guy, wanna arm wrestle?' O'Connor says. The kid laughs shyly.
"'You want some fish with that ketchup?' he says to an older woman at St. Matthew's Church in Lawrenceville before hugging her.
"He poses for a photographer, standing behind three women playing bingo in the West End. 'If you get discovered by Hollywood, I get 10 percent,' O'Connor tells the cooing ladies.
(this is a bit cut up, just to get the blazing highlights)
"Referring to some $45,000 that O'Connor has received from groups interested in establishing slot machine parlors, Lamb said, 'I'm concerned when you're talking about that kind of money. ... I think it's a real problem.'
"'I know there are 25,000 people out there who want to change this city,' Peduto said. 'We know where the machine politics of Pittsburgh have gotten us. They've brought us to the brink of bankruptcy.'
"'That's B.S. (did he just say B.S.?) Why would anybody invest in any mayor? Because they want to see this city perform. You think they want to see this city go downhill like it's been the last 10 years?' O'Connor asked."
this, THIS is my favorite.
o'connor: "I can guarantee you, there will not be open drug dealing in this city. Everywhere I go in this city, I don't care if it's -- I don't want to name neighborhoods -- but right now, they all tell you. You go in the coffee shop, people tell you, 'They're selling drugs right down the corner."
peduto: "It's like me saying we don't need fire stations because I'm going to eliminate fires. ... Tell me one city in the world that has eliminated drug sales."
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bill peduto is my dawg:
At a recent mayoral debate, there was consensus among other candidates that a supermarket would enhance the possibilities of Downtown living.
Peduto scoffed.
"I don't just want a grocery store," he said. "I want a Strip District market Downtown. I want Wholey's and Benkovitz and Pennsylvania Mac."
i could continue about how he is the most normal, rational politician i've ever encountered. or how he listens to young people, but i think that yinzerific ode to "no duh"ism is good enough for his section. trust me bloggers, you'd dig peduto.
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michael lamb DID go to carnegie mellon (heinz school):
i don't care enough for incriminating quotes. however, he really doesn't have anything to say about anything he did as prothonotary except take over when michael coyne bit it. was that insensitive? sorry. he's just like "yo i played football for seton-lasalle (sp?) and, and, BOB O'CONNOR SUCKS SO THERE!" i don't need this man in my life.
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anyway, if you want to take chicken's word for it, vote bill peduto and mark rauterkus. and if anyone knows an effective way to decide on judges for whom to vote, please tell me. i've been researching these mother fuckers all day and all i can come up with is wanting to vote for jacqueline morrow cuz she's a cool black woman from point breeze, and douglas walgren because he went to stanford and i feel like he'll bring some californian ideas to a very duquesne-educated pittsburgh. and i mean, fuck that superficial voting criteria! don't look at me for city council and all that jazz-- just pay attention to the sheet that they hand out at the polls. county council isn't so hot this year cuz kenny steinberg isn't running. but he's still making out of control ROFLesque commercials for his law firm. they're fancy. it's sad but impossible to keep up with everything and everyone and their all-too-similar platforms. bob dealy agrees about the 14th ward voting sheet (becca's daddy-o), and i trust bob dealy with my life, especially when it comes to politics and medicine and having a slew of ridiculously talented children.
if you need a different source, the league of women voters has produced an unbiased voter's guide. note that the lack of republican representation is mostly due to the fact that well, we don't have any.
here's the guide: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03001/501309.stm
i apologize for today's novel. vote vote vote!
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