I've been involved in politics ever since I was a child. My father took me along when he was helping to support various causes and campaigns. As a teenager he paid me a penny a word to write our congressman and our senators. I could pick the topic and say pretty much what I wanted.
In my twenties I ran for a state representative office and lost in the primary by something like a hundred votes. Since then I've continued to be involved in politics by helping on various campaigns. Over the last week I handed out about two hundred flyers for a friend of ours who is running for a city council seat.
There are times before an election when I do start to get tired of all the noise and rhetoric. My wife and I have even gotten tired of TV ads for our candidates.
Given all this I greatly enjoyed today's A Word A Day thought:
"People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt."
-Otto von Bismarck, statesman (1815-1898)
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Mercy! You are not kidding! And we are also getting telephone calls--from both parties!! I kid you not. One day last week we received 4 calls in one day. Even Sunday, a day of rest, we received two phone calls (prerecorded of course) from the same candidate and another one from him again today!
ReplyDeleteI understand elections this year are considered to be close, but I am so aggravated with the violation of my privacy that I cannot see straight. I never signed off on anything to receive phone calls and I hope something is done before the presidential election.