{"id":18873,"date":"2009-11-03T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2009-11-03T23:43:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:43:22","slug":"local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just went out and voted. It’s local Election Day. What motivated me to get myself out of bed and to the polls was voting against my home-district city council woman, Anne Marie DiBella. You cannot believe my disappointment when I learned that she was not even on the ballot. What exactly do I have against her? She led the crusade against a friendly stop sign placed in front of my studio, replacing a much older traffic light that encouraged speeding. In my view, she had no business having an opinion on this, because her district (where I live) is on the other end of town.<\/p>\n

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Anne Marie DiBella. Nobody could vote against her today. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We wonder why the country is in such a shambles; it’s the same reason that a bunch of local politicians can’t even run a small, upstate city. Everything is turned to a game of self-interest. Anyone who is altruistic or community minded is quickly ground to powder by the cynicism — if they let it happen.<\/p>\n

Remember to get out and vote. Local, county and state elections are arguably the most important there are. Some Patriots argue that the county (though usually forgotten) is the most powerful seat of government in the United States. I also took the opportunity to vote against the incumbent county clerk who has been in office for enough decades to have no accountability (short version of the story, this).<\/p>\n

It’s always struck me as interesting that the Founders put Election Day smack in the middle of Scorpio (it’s the Tuesday after the first Monday in November). This seems to be an invitation for just the kind of power struggles that show up when people (such as politicians) cannot handle Scorpio energy. They all seem to be obsessed with it — and to gag on it.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss the article in the post below — the one about the police chief of Boulder, CO feeling the need to call in the SWAT team in order to thwart the efforts of the annual naked pumpkin run through the center of town. Not only this, he threatened to charge the nude joggers with a sex offense — not merely indecent exposure.<\/p>\n

Participate in politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just went out and voted. It’s local Election Day. What motivated me to get myself out of bed and to the polls was voting against my home-district city council woman, Anne Marie DiBella. You cannot believe my disappointment when I learned that she was not even on the ballot. What exactly do I have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}