Did you VOTE?

I exercised my civic duty and voted just before 9 AM this morning.

Voting is something that I take pride in because I always wondered, when I was younger, who were the 'brilliant' people that voted Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States


You see, I heard alot of talk about 'Reaganomics' from my family and the number of visitors that ate at my family's Caribbean restaurant.

The complaints about the economy and the amount of money people had to spend on things such as the latest VCR, Sony Walkman, Chevrolet Sprint or purchasing a home with a mortgage rate that averaged 12%, were very loud and, at times, turned into heated debates.

It all made sense when I noticed the number of 'snow birds', folks that lived in the VI for 3-6 months of the year, steadily decrease.

When Hall of Fame NFL running back, Herschel Walker, ate at The Old Gallery Restaurant & Bar, I overhead him talking about the economy while he ate. Not even a millionaire athlete was immune.

So, today as you exercise your right to vote, do so with good conscience and know that WE play a role in making the world a little better for the next generation.

Where Do I Vote?

If you are not sure where to vote, visit www.wheredoivotema.com.


The website will tell you what ward and precinct you live in, where you vote, and who your current elected officials are. The polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Miss Konnie: Watch It!

When I read the post on Daily Worcesteria that Mayor Lukes doesn’t read the blogs because, “they aren’t worth paying attention to.” Well, it doesn’t surprise me one bit that Miss Konnie doesn’t feel the blogs are worth paying attention to because all that she wants to do is go on WCCA and pontificate on her “Soap Box”.

Mayor Lukes, please read this post or someone tell her about it because it is my way of saying since you won’t read the many great blogs that exist in the city, you will hear about how we go in and bring the news that you won’t find in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette or even Jordan Levy’s talk show.

The New Media in the new millennium have been blogs and videos and I will be the first to show you how it should be done.

I actually encourage all the Worcester County bloggers to step their game up on the political front and show Miss Konnie how much influence we do have, and, particularly, how much impact we have in the electoral voting arena.

Oh, baby! It’s ON!!

Ronald Reagan: Choices

Who knew Ronald Reagan laid it out so perfectly so long ago?

Politics: Has the election been stolen?

If this is true, we're in for an interesting election and post-election!

ROLLING STONE: IT'S ALREADY STOLEN

Investigation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast released today

Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of 'GOP vote tampering' on a massive scale.

- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.

Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.

- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as 'fraudulent.'

- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called 'caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.


There's more:

- Since the last presidential race, 'States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls.'

Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor.

The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times.

'Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics,' report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are 'systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats.'

The investigators level a deadly serious charge:

'If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering.'

Block the Vote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Greg Palast in the current issue (#1064) of Rolling Stone. [Media enquiries - Dave Falkenstein, Sunshine Sachs & Assoc, via interviews@gregpalast.com.]

Note - Kennedy and Palast are releasing, simultaneously with the Rolling Stone investigative report what they call, the vote-theft 'antidote': a 24-page full-color comic book, Steal Back Your Vote, which can be downloaded or obtained in print from their non-partisan website, StealBackYourVote.org

For updates and video reports, go to RollingStone.com, www.GregPalast.com and StealBackYourVote.org.

Change does affect VOTING

My polling station has been changed.

Who said change is inevitable...except from vending machines?