Sunday, November 11, 2007
In case you were wondering. Green-Rainbow's Grace Ross lost her bid for City Council in Worcester, in spite of the party's desperate scrubbing of their record and shoveling of their wackos under various beds and carpets.
Brendan Melican reports (under "The Losers"):
My name is Jim Hammerman. I grew up Jewish outside Chicago and now live in Brookline. While I am not a devout Jew, I bake challah and light Shabbat candles; I fast for Yom Kippur and reflect on its promise of repentance and renewal; I delight in playing dreidel and lighting the menorah with my daughters to remember our ancient fight for freedom of religious practice; and I am inspired to work for a better world for everyone by the annual Pesach telling of how our people broke the bonds of slavery in Egypt.
…you suck. The only thing keeping this campaign from turning into a sketch comedy routine was the lack of a Sudanese support page. “Hi, My name is Mukimbe and although both my arms were chopped off when I was two while I watched my mom get gang raped; I support Grace Ross for Council because Hemp clothing is pretty sweet”. Spare me.
If you're so removed from local politics that you need an endorsement from some nobody in a town 50 miles away, you shouldn't be running for city council anyway.