Why You Should Vote for Us

Since we won't be in town on Election Day, we get to vote on Saturday instead.  So, being the dutiful citizens that we are, we just spent the last couple hours online trying to decide who to vote for.  It's one thing to vote for the president of the United States and quite another to vote for the local guy (or gal) who lives down the street.  For one thing, not every state representative in our district even has a website.  It's a bit more difficult to find information on these folks.  And the information is much less comprehensive than what other, more noted politicians have available.

But at least these local folks are honest to boot.  Seriously.

The one state rep from our district who had a website had a video to watch on the homepage.  It had sweet Celtic music playing in the background (which may or may not have garnered our vote right then and there) with a number of slides describing the candidate.  This was one of the slides, I kid you not:

[this candidate]

is NOT the most educated man in Duluth

is NOT perfect, nor will he ever be

is NOT the richest man in town

Now that's pretty darn honest if you ask me!  Of course, the following slides included an endorsing quote from "Duluth Resident" followed by a quote from no one at all (seriously, there was a quote with no citation whatsoever), so it leads us to wonder if the not most educated man in Duluth knows how to cite his own sources.  Still, I like the guy.

At least he wasn't trying to win my vote by impressing me with his log rolling and axe-throwing abilities on a TV commercial (oh wait, that was the guy from Wisconsin, and maybe he would've won my vote if I lived in the Cheese State - the dude does hold two speed climbing titles for climbing log poles after all).

At any rate, we've decided that politics shmolitics are a headache-inducing enterprise, but we're gonna vote, gosh darn it, because we live in this beautifully free country that gives us the right to do so!  

But since we still have a couple days to mull over our voting decisions, who knows?  We may end up writing ourselves into the ballot.  Because we, too, can admit to not being the most educated people in Duluth nor perfect people nor the richest people in town, and if the other guy can get voted in on that premise, then why not us?  Besides, we're two good-looking folks, right?  Nowadays, that's half the battle anyways :)

Vote for Us!