Generally speaking, often the results of an election are such a foregone conclusion that I find I have to vote mechanistically, or along oppositional party lines. Rarely is there a true choice or true dead heat challenge, as is now available in SF.
So, for the first time in a long time, I find I really have a choice, and it is difficult to decide. One candidate has all the right political connections, but I am unsure that he'll do anything substantive (moreover his cosmetic ideas may do more harm than good) towards the challenge of chronic homelessness in the city; meanwhile the other candidate has some good idea, but a poor record of action whilst in a victory, is likely to face such strong Democrat opposition as to be rendered utterly ineffective.
So at this moment of greatest choice and importance, I find little choice at all. If I had the hutzpah I might follow the logical conclusion and just as well run myself. ;-)
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My tuppence, as SF's mayoral election is in a dead heat
Date: December 8th, 2003 09:13 am (UTC)From:So, for the first time in a long time, I find I really have a choice, and it is difficult to decide. One candidate has all the right political connections, but I am unsure that he'll do anything substantive (moreover his cosmetic ideas may do more harm than good) towards the challenge of chronic homelessness in the city; meanwhile the other candidate has some good idea, but a poor record of action whilst in a victory, is likely to face such strong Democrat opposition as to be rendered utterly ineffective.
So at this moment of greatest choice and importance, I find little choice at all. If I had the hutzpah I might follow the logical conclusion and just as well run myself. ;-)