I
went down to the local eatery this morning to have breakfast
and schmooze with some of my neighbors and on the way stopped at the
post office and picked up my mail. Among the offerings in my box was
a really nasty personal and anonymous attack piece that has to take
some kind of award for dirty personalized and corrupt political
offerings mailed at the last moment in the hope that it will turn
the election at a time when it is too late for anyone to counter
lies and half truths contained in it. I have previously written
about the expensive multi color brochure that they mailed to the
voters of this district. This district has when I last checked two
weeks ago 1219 registered voters. You can read my rant here.
As
is true of many political pieces it urged the recipient to vote and
even begged the recipient to “PLEASE VOTE” in upper case
bolded font. It then offered a ballot. A fake ballot which listed
only one candidate: Chay Peterson in a bolded font next to an
unchecked box. Below that there was another box checked in red ink
and associated with the legend “ANYBODY ELSE”. Keep in mind that
there are four other names on the real ballot
To
the left of the fake ballot was a list of six grievances expressed by
the unnamed coward who mailed this piece of crap. All of which
offenses had been going on according to the cowardly author “for
years” claiming that not Chay but “obstructive organizations”
again in bolded font “have controlled the canyon voice” as though
this so-called canyon voice was the voice of god herself and then
listed the grievances/accomplishments of those 'obstructive
organizations' and faulted them for many things. For not adding one
square foot of parkland 'for our future.' Talk about meaningless
buzz words. It accused those same unidentified organizations of
closing our local school--even though that school the last time I
checked had been closed by the local school board (if by local you
mean downtown) and claimed in conclusionary language that those
organizations were obstructing 'community collaboration' and that
they depressed home values by 'fighting reasonable and responsible
use of privately held properties.' As though voicing and working
against fake wineries, weekend wedding chapels along Santiago Canyon
road and the coming to town of monasteries and private schools to
educate the rich and powerful along with the concomitant
overburdening of our existing infrastructure somehow made my
residence and those of my neighbors less valuable. They claim those
organizations have polarized the community. Well if the cowardly
author looked around him he would find polarization has become a way
of life in this community, this county, this state and this Nation.
Polarization was not invented by those shadowy 'obstructive
organizations' he claims exist in this community. Our cowardly
author claims that the same groups have destroyed relationships with
unspecified governmental agencies in characteristically unspecified
ways. Again with no facts alleged and certainly none proven.
The
kicker in this fetid piece of political malarkey as Joe Biden would
call it was in the penultimate complaint that they “have
disrespected our elected officials.” Oh boy! Since when has it been
disrespectful to tell the truth or the perceived truth about someone
elected to public office? Since when is political criticism
un-American? Since when is it sinful politically to call out an
elected official who is corrupt or the tool of special interests? Or
simply terminally stupid. So based on this nonsense, malarkey and
political BS the unnamed and cowardly author of this hit piece urges
its recipients to vote for “anybody else” anyone but Chay
Peterson.
Everyone
in this Nation is entitled to speak his or her mind, to hold and to
express his or her opinion well taken and well reasoned or not but in
my view if you want to express an opinion you should have the cojones
to stand up in the light of day and sign your name to it. Own it
people, own it.
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