I’ve been dissed
OK NOW I”M PISSED.
My anonymous coward fans out there on the ‘Net staged a write-in campaign to elect me to FinCom. The idea was that if I was busy on FinCom I wouldn’t be sitting around complaining about town government. These people are mostly the refugees from the defunct pro-casino Middleboro Casino forum and are well known to me. These guys generally hang on my every word and discuss/dissect every post, comment, and column that I publish. On the weeks that my Gazette column appears, they’re in a tizzy for days in anticipation.
All this attention simply because I oppose a project most of them stand to gain from personally.
As the election approached, a Mr. Don Baldwin also staged a write-in campaign for himself. I endorsed him and announced that I wouldn’t accept the FinCom seat if I won. Well, the results are in and I have to say that I’m hurt. The unwanted write-in campaign for the uncontested FinCom seat resulted in only 5 votes for me!
WTF!! I’m so disappointed.
I had visions of being swept into power in a wave of unpopular support and was looking forward to humbly declining the seat for the good of the town. But really 5 votes?!!! I’m pretty sure I could get 5 people to write in my dead cat.
It was all very flattering that a group of people would start a write-in campaign without my knowledge, permission, or desire. Seriously. Even though it was done in a mean spirit to ridicule me and to generally cause trouble for me, it was still flattering that so many people thought about me that much. Sadly “so many” turned out to be around 5. Disappointing. My ego is very bruised.
Congratulations Don – I’ll get you next time.
If you guys start organizing a write-in campaign for me right now, you might be able to scare up 10 or 20 votes for the Selectman race next year.
I would volunteer to run your campaign, if you would like.
Did you beat out blanks?
Bumpkin,
I, too, am sadly disappointed!
Since word of this write-in campaign reached me, I have been composing a gracious speech for you to give at an undisclosed location suggested by Dick Cheney, a personal friend, to your not-so-adoring fan club.
The speech has been laboriously reviewed by those named Power Brokers in town, with numerous revisions, corrections and amendments.
It finally passed the appropriate muster of the professional speech writers of the elementary school who deemed that your fan club could comprehend the complexities.
I’ll save the speech for their next bright idea.
No way. I was totally embarrassed.
Come on Rick see if you can’t get your boys to do a more effective job of harassing and stalking me.
I wouldn’t even mind that much except for that guy that has managed to have both pro and anti people report him to the police. I consider him to be dangerous and find his obsession with me to be rather frightening.
To be quite honest, I wish you wouldn’t indulge him by giving him an anonymous platform. That’s your business except where it might incite people to do harm to me. I’m also disappointed in his Mboro cohorts who seem reasonable in the light of day but say things when “cloaked” in perceived anonymity that they apparently don’t have the courage to say to my face.
Obsession for men.
Not my “boys” and it is an open blog that I have not had to monitor. All can post – including yourself or any others. Debate the issue with them as I am not into shunning posters unless they really go off the deep end and so far even Limo has not. Close – but not quite over the edge. Maybe I’ll give him a push?
Mark, incite? IMHO that is a fantasy. Guns and theatrics are the domain of AB.
Is that all you got? That speaks volumes to the influence these Power Brokers have. Impressive!
Knowing who the anonymous posters are makes it understandable.
I wish that I had thought of you BB, you would have had six write in’s.
I do have a question, not pertaining to your being pissed off, but rather, pertaining to the election.
It was announced that if Wayne won, he was going to have a prayer said at the town meetings. My question is this.
Why is it illegal for the children to have prayers in schools but a town meeting in a public facility can have prayer?
In the sage lyrics of Santana, “Why don’t you forget about them?”
Really Bumpkin…some of those miscreants live to get a rise out of you. The one thing they can’t deal with is being ignored. But that’s exactly what they deserve.
RE Prayer:
I don’t have the foggiest idea. Prayer in public school or town meetings doesn’t pass the sniff test for me – it seems like a violation of church and state. Perhaps a moment for silent reflection might fly.
But honestly – I don’t have any idea.
Mark and anonymous, I wrote a long piece about the issue of prayer at town meetings on Heckuva.blogspot.com.
BB,
What is the signifcance of 5? Does that mean there is only 5 in that group of fans you spoke about? Are there only 5 town residents in that group who could vote? Are there only 5 rats left on the sinking ship?
By the way, is your dead cat running next year? How embarassing would THAT be, losing to a dead cat?
Next year I’m voting for real change in Middleboro. I’m voting for DEAD CAT!
I hear he’s a hell of a debater.
BB,
What is the signifcance of 5? Does that mean there is only 5 in that group of fans you spoke about? Are there only 5 town residents in that group who could vote? Are there only 5 rats left on the sinking ship?
By the way, is your dead cat running next year? How embarassing would THAT be, losing to a dead cat?
Next year I’m voting for real change in Middleboro. I’m voting for DEAD CAT!
I hear he’s a hell of a debater.
Be sure to write him in properly:
Bumpkin’s Cat (scattered about 29 Moulton St.)
BB,
For the official write in wouldn’t it be…
Bumpkin’s DEAD Cat (scattered about 29 Moulton St.)
I wouldn’t want him confused with Live Cat, who makes some good points on his own, but cannot hold a candle to Dead Cat.
The other day I saw Dead Skunk on the road but he decided not to run citing his belief that politics in this town stinks enough already.
Dead people have been elected in the past. A Dead Cat? Mboro might achieve a first!
I heard the miscreants had another write in candidate. That must have been equally successful. They sure are the Power Brokers!
Smoking Owl,
That’s really funny because I saw a Live Skunk heading toward Town Hall because he thought that with the ‘stink,’ he wouldn’t be noticed.
An incumbent probably ran him over.
Are you sure that wasn’t Wayne Perkins?
I know it wasn’t the former town manager cause he’s a snake in the grass.