This golden-throated man is homeless. Watch the video and listen to him speak. That is seriously a gift/talent greater than any gift or talent than the average person possesses. Kind of sobering that he still wound up homeless.
HT and full write-up at Midwest sports fans.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Headline of the day: "G.O.P. Recruits Street People on Green Ticket"
This is nuts.
In order to siphon votes away from Democratic candidates, Republican party operatives began recruiting homeless people to run as Green Candidates. I think this highlights a few things: 1. Republicans are sneaky (that's a euphemism). 2. People are stupid enough to blindly vote for somebody without knowing anything about their candidacy. 3. American politics has nothing to do with governing effectively anymore, it's just about posturing on a handful of issues.
This makes me sick, angry and sick.
Here's more from the NYTimes:
Drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.
In order to siphon votes away from Democratic candidates, Republican party operatives began recruiting homeless people to run as Green Candidates. I think this highlights a few things: 1. Republicans are sneaky (that's a euphemism). 2. People are stupid enough to blindly vote for somebody without knowing anything about their candidacy. 3. American politics has nothing to do with governing effectively anymore, it's just about posturing on a handful of issues.
This makes me sick, angry and sick.
Here's more from the NYTimes:
Drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates.
“These are people who are not serious and who were recruited as part of a cynical manipulation of the process,” said Paul Eckstein, a lawyer representing the Democrats. “They don’t know Green from red.”
But Steve May, the Republican operative who signed up some of the candidates along Mill Avenue, a bohemian commercial strip next to Arizona State University, insists that a real political movement has been stirred up that has nothing to do with subterfuge.
“Did I recruit candidates? Yes,” said Mr. May, who is himself a candidate for the State Legislature, on the Republican ticket. “Are they fake candidates? No way.”
To make his point, Mr. May went by Starbucks, the gathering spot of the Mill Rats, as the frequenters of Mill Avenue are known.
"Mill Rats"?!?!?! this is worse than the dead-voter scandal in Black Sheep.
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