Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.—André Gide

oh politick

Well, I finally decided to submit myself to a senatorial campaign for the ‘08 election cycle. One of my senators, Saxby Chamblis, certainly does not stand for many of the thigns I stand for. He is a member of the now infamous Cobourn Seven, and it’s reprehensible to me to vote against AIDs releif. He has also scored a whopping 0 on environmental issues (wiki), which is another major issue to me. Then take into his voting record on the war (pro), gay rights (anti) and universal health care (anti), then it’s really a no-brainer that I’m voting against him.

So, where does that leave me in the area of who to vote for? Well, after a few hours of research (yes only hours, but you can’t do that much research on smaller campaigns with essentially grassroots challengers), I’m going with Rand Knight.

Pro-environment, pro-fair trade, pro-universal health care, so he’s got three wins there. Really a lot of his rhetoric is in line with where I stand, and I think we need a democrat from Georgia to help balance out these things.

I just got an e-mail from his staff asking if I can do phone bank calls. I’m not a huge fan of that, but we’ll see. I’m definitely gonna drive down to their office and pick up some literature to look over, but I’m going to assume that it won’t say much more than what’s on his site (which is a lot).

The only thing I’m worried about is his lack of name recognition, the CEO of the largest county in Georgia (who knew they had CEO’s of counties btw) is also running int he primaries, and if we’re going off name recognition (which happens all the freaking time) then the CEO has a better shot.

We shall see, I’ll keep you posted.

June 19, 2008 | Filed Under politics 

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4 Responses to “oh politick”

  1. Andrew Martin on June 19th, 2008

    In that video on his site, he looks just like Ben Affleck. Does that work in his favour?

  2. Matt on June 19th, 2008

    In any other country… no.
    In the US… Yes.

  3. blake on June 20th, 2008

    ugh…coburn. between him an inhofe i’m frequently embarrassed to say i’m an oklahoman. however, inhofe has a good chance of getting booted this time around. we’ll see. i’m moving to boston in a month or so and won’t get to vote in that state election, but i can hope.

    good luck in your endeavors.

  4. J. Peaslee on June 22nd, 2008

    Damn environmentalist hippies…

    With a last name like “Knight” I can see why people would vote for him, though.

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