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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
This fall I'll be supporting my local city councilor in his run for Congress (he's the Pacific Green Party candidate), largely because the Democratic incumbent, Peter DeFazio, will win by a landslide anyways.
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this is a situation to be a bit careful about. back in 1999 in the victorian elections a lot of people felt our then premier, jeff kennett, was becoming a bit cocky and the opposition really didn´t stand a chance and to avoid giving him a landslide a lot of people voted opposition and independents, basically what ppl called a bit of a "kick up the arse" so he´d listen a bit better to the people (general consensus was he was doing a brilliant job as premier and i think he´ll go down in history as one of, if not, the best premiers in our history.) well, apparently a few too many ppl had the same idea and he found himself just short of a majority and all the independants formed a coalition with the opposition and in the end we accidentally kicked a bit too hard and kicked him out of office. it was a farce simply because the independants really had no policy and suddenly found themselves holding the balance of power and the next 4 years was pretty fucked up. mind you, they also literally formed a gang, openly stating they did so just because they didn´t like jeff kennett which basically meant we were now governed by perry vindictiveness and a lot of good from the previous government was unneccessarily undone.
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mother nature made the aeroplane, and the submarine sandwich, with the steady hands and dead eye of a remarkable sculptor.
she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?
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