So on Tuesday I had several options I could and couldn't do.
1. Climbing... NOT! Although now I can belay!
2. "There will be Blood", at the downtown Theater at 6:50pm. That looked intriguing but those plans were for not because of the third option.
3. The Caucus.
I am an independent, because I like to think I run my own life in truth I'm not so sure but... at least being independent gives me the illusion that I run my own life.
The #1 person that fits my system was Ron Paul, then Dennis Kucinich (who withdrew), and for some reason I just liked Barack Obama.
The candidates which really erk's me is Hillary Clinton, so I with some thought I decided I would be happy with Barack Obama as President. So my voting will be against Hillary. If Barack Obama wins the Democratic election I will vote for him, if Hillary wins I will vote for whoever is on the republican side. I'm not sure my vote makes a lot of difference at the national level but it is my vote nevertheless.
So I went to the Democratic Caucus at Centennial Hall and WOW it was packed. It was really quite amazing to see how many people showed up. And so many people that came up and said Hi, and how are you. Juneau is such a small town I know I didn't see everyone but everyone is so nice.
So I managed to change my party status from independent to Democratic (which now I need to change it back to Independent).
I ended up being in the A-G line for district 3... which as luck would have it was the LONGEST line. But because I was where I was I had a lot of people say Hi Myron! A lot of people I haven't seen in a long time so while it was a long wait it was not boring!
Throughout the evening I hooked up with several different bunches of people here and there... then they had district 3 and 4 file out into the two largest areas and I stood around until district 3 happened and I put my vote in for Barack Obama.
Then I got a ride back to Amanda's place with Liza, where I hung out for a bit until Nick and Ashleigh came by and then we all went over to their place and watched the rest of the elections. We got a couple of pizza's and had a good time until I went home.
Today also I had lunch with Marvin too, I ended up canceling with Lee which was disappointing but Marvin was in town for just a few days and I haven't seen him for a long time.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
politics and elections
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4 comments:
District 3 A-G was my long line too. I just pushed and shoved old ladies to make my wait less.
Thanks for helping me get to Palmer!
You must have been far in front of me. I got there fairly on time but I didn't have a pen so I ended up walking back to my office and getting 4 just in case someone else had the same problem. I ended up giving one away to Dawn.
Then by that time it took forever to get from the "change your party status" to the district 3 A-G partly because I just hung around waiting.. no idea where I was actually going.
And they said everyone was going to get in so I was like... okay! And the people around me were very nice :).
I'm glad you both voted too. I can't stand people who don't vote and are proud of it. On the other hand, I'm glad those idiots aren't voting. Does that make any sense?
For the sake of democracy, I do encourage everyone to vote, but I'd prefer if people who didn't vote like me were more likely to abstain... haha. Not fair of me, I know.
I'm glad I registered here a few weeks ago - I managed to jump right in line and then have a pleasant conversation with a lady from Bethel.
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