Politricksters need to clean up

Here's the deal: the primaries have been over for 2 weeks now. We know some of you are still licking your wounds. Sure it sucks that even with only 2K+ members of your party in a town, only 300 turned out to vote for Registrar of Voters and only 90 voted for you. And sure, it hurts that you spent all that tax-payer money as the endorsed Dem on those lawn signs and you only got half the votes of your opponent, the incumbent. Guess just because you say you support Barack Obama, doesn't mean that people want to support you. Sure, it stings.

But really, it's been 2 weeks! Take down your fricking signs and pick up the lawn signs littering the ground around town! How did you expect to 'clean up the city' when you can't even clean up after yourselves?


Quoting from the Hartford Courant's article about the election results,

"The Democratic Party rules say if the Democratic Party put up the wrong person, then we have the right, within the party, to fight them tooth and nail," [Abe] Giles told a small gathering at his North End warehouse. "We done that. We lost."

"If I had won, I would expect them to support me, and, yes, I'm going to support Marie," Giles said. "I'm going to try to keep her feet to the fire."

What's bewildering about this quote is that the Democratic Party put up Mr. Giles and therefore, Ms. Kirkley-Bey was fighting tooth and nail. One wonders if Mr. Giles will keep the feet of his daughter-in-law, Olga Vasquez, to fire. Ms. Vasquez won the primary for Democratic Registrar of Voters; they fought hard against the incumbent Registrar, Shirley Surgeon, who felt it improper to award Mr. Giles' moving company a contract to move voting machines on election day. Considering how it would look, one hopes that Mr. Giles would withdraw his bid for that contract so as not to look bad for his daughter-in-law. He's already got enough bad press: here, here, and here.

On the other hand, I've got to commend one of the best political posters around:

Ed Vargas gets top points for a great, fun design. Sorry it didn't help him win (I actually didn't see these until after the election).