Local Campaigning
There is an election for City Judge this Saturday, and I think there are literally a dozen or more guys (mostly guys) running. I got a campaign phone call about ten days ago. Here's how it went. My mental responses in italics.
Hello, I'm calling on behalf of John Wells, running for City Court Judge in Slidell. John Wells is a former Navy Commander
That's nice.
who has been a licensed attorney in Louisiana since 1995.
That's nice, too.
He's married to Janice Burton, and he and his wife are active in Marriage Encounter.
That's very nice. It's good that people want to do things to make their marriage stronger. I think those are Roman Catholic buzzwords, which a Catholic would understand to mean, "He's Catholic," but I could be wrong, and besides, I don't really care what religion he is.
He's in favor of mandatory military-style bootcamps to teach discipline to youthful offenders
Uh-oh.
He's strongly pro-life
Uh-oh.
and favors a defense of marriage amendment to the Constitution.
Uh-oh! Uh-oh! Uh-oh!
Will you vote for John Wells for City Court Judge?
I responded, aloud: "Based on the information you've just provided me, most certainly not."
Probably not the result the caller expected - or a typical response to that sort of candidate information in conservative St. Tammany Parish.
Hello, I'm calling on behalf of John Wells, running for City Court Judge in Slidell. John Wells is a former Navy Commander
That's nice.
who has been a licensed attorney in Louisiana since 1995.
That's nice, too.
He's married to Janice Burton, and he and his wife are active in Marriage Encounter.
That's very nice. It's good that people want to do things to make their marriage stronger. I think those are Roman Catholic buzzwords, which a Catholic would understand to mean, "He's Catholic," but I could be wrong, and besides, I don't really care what religion he is.
He's in favor of mandatory military-style bootcamps to teach discipline to youthful offenders
Uh-oh.
He's strongly pro-life
Uh-oh.
and favors a defense of marriage amendment to the Constitution.
Uh-oh! Uh-oh! Uh-oh!
Will you vote for John Wells for City Court Judge?
I responded, aloud: "Based on the information you've just provided me, most certainly not."
Probably not the result the caller expected - or a typical response to that sort of candidate information in conservative St. Tammany Parish.
5 Comments:
Mr. Wells, may I interest you in my new line of "Pro-Life" guns? I also sell an assortment of "Pro-Marriage" flammable crosses featuring a sharpened end that can easily be wedged firmly into a front lawn.
Sheesh.
Good for you! There seem to be enough people interested in forcing their position on the masses rather than applying the laws.
I thing the constitution and bill of rights were written to give us rights and prevent the government from restricting us, rather than documents that restrict us from doing something others don't like.
Give 'em hell.
As of now, I'm planning to vote for the guy whose cousin knocked on our door (Reggie something-or-other. He's an African-American guy). That's about as informed as I get in local judicial races.
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