VOTE TOMORROW - Special Election for U.S. Senate

[ron_newman]

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 25) is the special election for US Senate, to replace John Kerry. Candidates are Democratic Representative Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez.

Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. To find your polling place, fill out the form at http://WhereDoIVoteMA.com .

Comments

[frotz.livejournal.com]

My ballot also shows one Richard A. Heos of the Twelve Visions Party.

It was a new one on me, so I went reading: http://www.twelvevisionsparty.com/

If, also like me, you have a lot of raging disgust for the two mainstream parties and are more likely to vote for any third-party candidate, you may want to check out their platform first. It's... not quite like anything I've seen from any third party around here.

[ron_newman]

I had not heard of this candidate until you made this comment. I'm curious how he got on the ballot, since that required collecting 10,000 valid signatures, a difficult thing for a total unknown to accomplish.

Usually third-party candidates such as Greens and Libertarians get at least some media publicity (and sometimes, if you're Jill Stein or Grace Ross, you get a lot), but this guy is flying totally under the radar.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

He was on my absentee ballot ... Whole lots of wtf.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Apparently a political spinoff of the "Neothink" group, which is... well, somewhere between Scientology, The Secret, and a multilevel-marketing ripoff?

[ron_newman]

Secret of what?

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

This "The Secret" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_(book)

[gruene.livejournal.com]

Paid signature gatherers, from his own savings, apparently:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/woburn/news/x522265329/Third-party-candidate-from-Woburn-Goal-is-publicity#axzz2XuxP3800

[daviscubed.livejournal.com]

The TVP Movement "Makes All Americans Rich, Including the Poor!"

Why haven't the other parties thought of this?!?!?!

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

I'm for the TVP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein) movement. Anything that brings down the cost of meat substitutes is ok in my book.

[koloratur.livejournal.com]

I don't know what is more enjoyable - the 12 Visions, or the comment spam on their crazy website.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Whoa...

That's umm... quite a jacket (http://www.youtube.com/neothinksociety).