With primaries coming up next week the volume of negative political ads is getting pretty stupid. One candidate exposes the dirty laundry of every lawsuit ever filed against his opponent, claiming it as evidence of financial irresponsibility. Meanwhile, his opponent fires back with a laughable list of every traffic violation the other guy incurred in the last five years. How can you trust a man that ran a red light back in '03 with our future?!?!! Sigh... But it gets worse.
We're also seeing a monthly effort to get our local city commissioner, Steve Gonot, thrown out with a California-style recall petition. Every few weeks a well-funded group of thinly-veiled Republicans sends another petition and pre-paid envelope trying to convince constituents of the necessity of removing an honest man from his second term. Their reasoning? [Take a big swig of the right-wing Kool-Aid to understand this...] They claim he talked about work with another official after hours once. Of course the real reason seems to be that developers are being blocked from "paving the beach" and there's a lot of money to be made by an unscrupulous few in removing the commissioner. I hope everyone's bullshit detectors are working at election time.
posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:44 AM