Reporter: Over the last 10 years or so, you’ve only voted less than … just about 50% of the time in state and federal elections. How do you explain that to the voters in general who you want to vote for you?
Jim McKenna: [awkward silence] [to his press aide:] do we have any more questions left? Or…
[to the reporter:] I don’t have those numbers here. I hope to get back to you on that.
Reporter: You’ve voted 6 times out of the last 10 state and federal elections. Do you consider that to be a good voting record?
JM: I’ve done a good job voting, and I’ve worked vigorously on a number of different campaigns. I’m very proud of my record.
Reporter: Do you want voters to have a better voting record, the ones who vote for you, I guess is what I’m asking. How do you ask people to vote for you when you have not gone to the polls yourself very often in the last ten years?
JM: I have gone to the polls very often in the last ten years [ed. note: that is true only if you consider voting 60% of the time “often”]. Our message has resonated [inaudible] that we’ve had for the last two months, and we look forward to that message resonating through the rest of this campaign.
[Press aide mercifully cuts off questioning]
[One person claps. Seriously – one.]
Does federal law really need to change before the AG can refer criminal aliens who have finished their sentences over to ICE? I find that hard to believe.
Despite how unimpressive McKenna is, he is only the second ever candidate to make the statewide ballot as a write-in candidate. And they say money can’t buy you love?
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p>I’m not even sure if this guy is ready to be a dog catcher – or even state rep … never mind the state’s top lawyer.
I got 3 separate mailings from Carbone containing stickers. No mailing from McKenna.
Patrick – where are you from? Reason I ask is that I knew people who WANTED Carbone stickers on Cape and couldn’t get them! Whereas in the town of Mashpee ALONE, McKenna got over 600 sticker votes, much based on his agressive sticker distribution. We had hot Congressional and state senate primaries, due to open seats, but little contact from Carbone. I only saw him at one event (at which he told Irish jokes?). I met McKenna over a dozen times. Did Carbone target POPULAION hubs instead of primary voter hubs?
That was a stellar performance. She owned that room.
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p>Because I thought that Sean Bielat did quite well
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p>Sean has Barney running scared. Not a joke.
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p>Please explain how this applies to national defense, police, fire departments, public schools, roads, environmental protection. Whoops, I almost forgot that Republicans today care nothing at all about the environment, preferring to leave its protection to their friends: the oil companies, the coal companies, the clear cutters, the polluters. Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Ed Brooke used to care about the environment, but these men would no longer be welcome in the Republican party today.
the sig line is inevitably true in any case.
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p>In some cases we need it in order to survive at all as a society.
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p>In other cases some busybodies think they know better than everyone else and feel pretty insulted when they get called out for basically theft.
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p>Lets say we agree for some reason that the environment is somehow seriously underprotected right now. OK, we want more protection. It costs something. They take whatever that is from us and then we get some kind of benefit (minus the inevitable pork and corruption and inefficiency along the way.)
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p>OK great. At least protecting the environment is not taking money from one person to hand to another.
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p>But I guess we’ve gotten pretty far off course here, haven’t we?
It’s mostly a taunt like many of JohnD’s sig lines, best ignored.