{"id":21938,"date":"2010-10-21T02:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T09:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=21938"},"modified":"2010-10-21T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T19:36:35","slug":"political-echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/21938","title":{"rendered":"Political echo, my dad-n-Jerry Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I actually found a moment this week were I ended up watching a bunch of the latest political attack ads. I’d missed a bunch of them – not a bad thing – mostly because of my TiVo. Who watches actual ads anymore?<\/em><\/p>\n

Candidate for California Governor Jerry Brown (D) unleashed this little ‘Jon Stewartesque’ ditty this week, comparing his opponent to our sinking Governator (above). What hooked me – and the media<\/a> – is how it just keeps going on and on and on and on and on.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve always liked Jerry Brown. He’s kind of a kook,<\/a> but a smart one.<\/p>\n

my dad-n-jerry<\/strong>
\nBack in the early 1990s, my father<\/a> held the honor of being the guy who ‘registered the most voters in the State of California.’ He was retired and simply had a lot of time on his hands. So coffee in hand, he set up shop at the local mall – and sort of hung out for a year or so. <\/p>\n

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He made a few bucks too. Dad found that both Democrats and Republicans actually paid<\/em> for registered voters. Republicans had a higher payout; but when it came down to it, both parties did find some rather clever ways to avoid actually anteing up. A weaseley Dem, turned out, was pocketing most of Dad’s earnings.<\/p>\n

Along the way, Dad also had the dubious honor of once standing up Jerry Brown for breakfust.<\/p>\n

‘Just didn’t feel like hanging out’<\/em> was what he told me at the time. <\/p>\n

Never did find out what that was all about. Just that Dad missed out on a free breakfust with Governor Moonbeam. <\/p>\n


\nPhotographic simulation of what it would have been like, Jerry’s at left<\/p>\n

Photos found via Inside Elections,<\/a> TravelPod<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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