I feel a little dirty and a little scared.
Kind of like that first time in high school, where you go back behind the bleachers and smoke your first joint that is probably no more potent than grandma's oregano - from all you've heard in school you're pretty convinced that by next Tuesday, the "gateway drug" will have firmly taken hold and you will undoubtedly have a $200 per day crack habit.
I voted for two Republicans.
It was only for school board and board of regents, but what's next, I stop living in sin and start coding for godhatesfags.com?
I guess I made an informed decision rather than simply a partisan one, but I can't help feeling a little icky. I cast my vote for the school board candidates who were strongly in favor of supporting the arts in school, increasing rather than cutting funding for the arts, and actually sat on the boards of and chaired arts organizations. I chose these folks over the Democratic candidates for the board who only had their heads shoved up their rears over litanies upon litanies of affirmative action business. That's nice and all but there are other issues. (And no, I am not complete evil incarnate, I did vote NO on 2, the danger of cutting funding for gender-based health initiatives was even too strong a worry for me.)
Sigh. Research can lead to unexpected choices at times.
2 comments:
if it's any consolation, i had a few R's in my choices as well.
I don't think you should be ashamed. Informed choice is the most responsible way of voting. If there had been local folks on my ballot pushing for more arts funding and the like, and they'd been Republican, I'd have voted for them, too. You can't shit where you eat, y'know?
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