Thursday, July 31, 2003
While you're here
Since most visitors to this site are looking for something about Georgy Russell, here goes: Why to or why not to vote for Georgy Russell.
People have their different reasons for choosing their political representatives, and it would be arrogant of me to assume that my reasons are good enough for everyone. So, based on your reasons, here are my opinions on Goergy Russel.
(Much info comes from her website)
Cuteness: If you vote based on cuteness, Russell certainly wins a spot near the top of your list. However, I have to admit that I find Arnie to be even cuter than Russell. It's a toss-up.
Experience: If you're looking for experience.... well, don't look to Russell. However, if you're looking for a lack of experience, Russell's most appealing point, then you're faced with a tough decision of Russell or one of the other nutcases running for fun.
Sense of Humor: Well, maybe Russell could win. But then, I don't know if I'd trust someone with a sense of humor in government office. She's liable to secede from the U.S. as a joke.
The Issues: No one cares about issues, but since we're supposed to pretend like we're educated, let's go over her issues:
"Georgy for Governor Thongs": PRO!
Clean Elections, Energy, Justice System: Pshhh. Leave it to a woman to think of cleaning.
Dislike of Texas: "Do we really want our state to be grouped with George Bush's Texas?" Well, if you're into the whole bigoted hating of whole states based on their stereotypes thing, she's your girl!
Gender Role Restrictions: As I mentioned earlier, Georgy Russell has shown herself to be bigoted not only towards Texas, but towards women in general, with her "As a woman" sentence. For one who supports homosexual marriage as an issue of fairness, she shows a suprising lack of willingness to allow women to make their own decisions, independent of the way they're "supposed to" act. Women are supposed to like female role models, are they? Are all those women who have male role models betraying their sex?
Economic Prosperity: Having money is good. That's the Russell platform on the issue. I approve.
Being weirder than everyone else: "Our once progressive state now stands behind leaders like Maine, Arizona, and Vermont..." Russell is also of the "progressivism is a race" school, with her constant griping about how we suck because other states have done progressive things first. It is apparently very important for her that we do things first, instead of trying to do things right.
Terminology: "This recall is just the latest in a series of assaults on our democracy." Democracy is when the people all vote on issues. Recall is when the people all vote on an issue. The recall is democracy to the extreme (Xmocracy, if you please), but hardly an assault on it.
Mudwrestling the Terminator: According to the Georgy for Governor blog, soy and voter turnout are very closely related.
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