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jmowreader

(50,557 posts) Sat Oct 31, 2015, 06:17 PM Oct 2015

I am so ashamed... [View all]

Last night I voted in our town's city council election. And I broke a long-standing tradition and voted for The Enemy.

The reason I did it is very simple: Ron Edinger, a Republican city councilman and by all accounts a decent-enough person, is running against a teabagger whose stated goal is to eliminate, among other things, the funding for Public Art installations that are of utmost importance in a tourist town like mine.

If the teabagger wouldn't have been on the ballot I wouldn't have voted for the Republican. But he was and I had no choice. I atoned by voting for a good Democrat on the same ballot and by immediately rushing home and washing my voting hand in rubbing alcohol - the most aggressive solvent I have in the house right now - to remove the taint.

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I am so ashamed... [View all] jmowreader Oct 2015 OP

But this is what they do, and they're doing it to our own party, as well.... villager Oct 2015 #1

Sometimes you DO have to vote for the lesser evil, and not to do so is irresponsible. Squinch Oct 2015 #2

It Is Always This Way When Voting For The Lesser Of Two Evils cantbeserious Oct 2015 #3

this may be the theme of politics now olddots Oct 2015 #4

You're very lucky. When DU was in it's infant stage, it was common for people who voted.. BlueJazz Oct 2015 #5

The two-party system has made me do something similar bigwillq Oct 2015 #6

that's pretty much what voting and elections are about JI7 Oct 2015 #7

I think you are being a tad dramatic. virgogal Oct 2015 #8

I never vote for them jmowreader Oct 2015 #9

Same here, GOP or indie gwheezie Oct 2015 #10

How about a choice between a liberal CT republican and a nutjob CT democrat... madinmaryland Oct 2015 #11

Sadly we have no dems locally gwheezie Oct 2015 #13

That would be rough... jmowreader Oct 2015 #17

I had to do the same for the Spotsylvania Sheriff in the 1990s etherealtruth Oct 2015 #12

Right gwheezie Oct 2015 #14

Nah, left Virginia in 1999 .... etherealtruth Oct 2015 #15

I've voted for Republicans many times in local elections. Oneironaut Oct 2015 #16

You don't need to be ashamed, you can hold your head high. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #18