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Miller to outspend Curley 14 to 1
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Based on the size of the Democratic caucus this year, I'd guess Miller is getting a lot of donations. She might be spending some of her own money too, but I don't know.
Haik and Bob Kiss Via her baby-group connections, my wife was invited to attend a kid-friendly-breakfast-house-party-meet-n-greet with Bob Kiss. That’s where she, I and our one-year-old boy went this morning (02.25.06). Unbeknownst to us, the family hosting the event on North Willard Street included someone my wife has worked with at FAHC. That's Burlington. There's usually just one or two degrees of Kevin Bacon between any of us... Click here to read entire post
Continuing on the question of acumen in urban planning, Kiss said “The people of Burlington expect more.” He spoke of a “moral force… a leadership force…” and it gave me the feeling Kiss, more than the others had spent time exploring the philosophical underpinnings of his approach to governance...
I lived in Austin, Texas in 1997 and 1998. While there I worked for a small, upstart ice cream company called Amy’s. My job was to make ice cream. So one day Amy and I were chatting, and noting I was from Vermont, she mentioned her dealings with Ben and Jerry’s.
You see at that time Amy had about five shops in Austin and San Antonio, but she wanted to start selling pints of ice cream in stores, too. She told me that Ben and Jerry had stopped that from happening by threatening to pull their business from all of the area companies with refrigerated trucks if they distributed for Amy.
That sounded like a vaguely familiar scenario. Where had I heard that before? Oh yeah, isn’t that what Pillsbury famously did to Ben and Jerry’s once? Remember the “What’s the Doughboy Afraid Of?” ad campaign?
She said she had spoken with each of them on the phone. According to her, Jerry was a nice guy and seemed almost apologetic about the whole thing, while Ben said something like ‘We’re big and you’re small so F you.”
My car radio is usually locked on 1390 WVAA AM. So last night I was dutifully picking up a "Love Boat" from Koto for my sushi-lovin' wife, listening to Randi Rhodes talk about Bush's sellout of our seaports to the UAE. I know there's pan-spectral outrage on this, so I decided to flip over to 620 AM to hear what the other side was saying about it. As luck would have it I caught the opening of Michael Savage on 620 AM. He was freaking out about it too, and, amazingly, praising Chuck Schumer for working to stop the deal. When Randi Rhodes and Michael Savage are both freaking out on the same side of the same issue at the same time, it's an earthquake.
So I'm on my way to work this morning, and because my car radio is still tuned to 620 AM, I'm lucky enough to catch Peter Clavelle's last appearance on the "Charlie and Ernie Show" as mayor. Joining him on the program was Plattsburgh mayor Dan Stewart, Kurt Wright, Dick Mazza and others. I guess Bernie and Howard Dean had called in earlier. I caught Peter Freyne and Ray ("The Real Moonie") Clavelle's calls into the show. Very good, bittersweet goodbye stuff, there.
And just as I was thinking about the ports story, and how it caused me to catch Clavelle's appearance, good old Paul Harvey came on and started talking about the uproar. He joked about Bush walking into this firestorm. "As one friend said of another while watching him step in front of a moving train," Harvey mused, "He must know what he's doing."
The second of four scheduled mayoral debates was held tonight (2/20/06) at 6:00pm at the CCTV Channel 17 Studio at 294 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington. It aired on the channel live. The moderator was Joel Najman of Vermont radio fame.
I was going to try to follow up my coverage of the Ohavi Zedek debate with something at least as rigorous, but forget that now. The weekend didn’t really take...
Click Picture to Hear Song. I'll write about the second mayoral debate later.
Even though I only have "broadcast level" cable, TV Land Network 'bleeds' into my cable service somehow and I get to watch it fuzzy for free. (Fox "News" also comes in, but perfectly clear- an obvious Adelphia conspiracy.) "All in the Family" is one of my favorite shows on TV Land. The IMDB Plot Outline: "A working class bigot constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day."
On one episode I saw recently, a Jewish militant was killed by a car bomb while Archie, Gloria and Mike watched in horror. I'm not kidding. It's amazing to see what passed for comedy in the seventies. Well, not that scene specifically, but you know what I mean. Sitcoms were more hard-hitting then, than the news is today.
Anyway. I started ruminating about the theme song "Those were the Days" written by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams for the show which ran from 1971-1979. Everyone who knows the show is familiar with the song's performance by Carroll O'Connor and Maureen Stapleton at the opening of each episode. But have you ever really thought about the lyrics? When exactly were "the days" they're singing about?
My analysis of the lyrics:
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played!(1) Songs that made the Hit Parade. (2) Guys like us, we had it made. (3) Those were the days! (4)
And you knew where you were then. Girls were girls and men were men. (5) Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. (6)
Didn't need no welfare state. (7) Everybody pulled his weight. (8) Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. (9) Those were the days! (10)
(1) Big Band Musician Glenn Miller lived 1904-1944. (2) The "Hit Parade" was a radio show from 1935-50. Sort of a precursor to "American Bandstand." (3) The first in a series of 'male-normative' phrases with sexist overtones. (4) When were the days? So far they must have been between 1935-1944 to include Glenn Miller & "Hit Parade." (5) The second sexist phrase, this time juxtaposing male maturity with female infantilization. (6) Hoover's presidency (1929-1934) saw the Depression begin. He lived 1879-1964. (7) That's a double-negative. It means they DID need a "welfare state." (8) Third sexist phrase. Use of the pronoun "his" implies that the speaker believes "everybody" doesn't include women. (9) Cadillac LaSalle (named for French explorer) An American car produced from 1927 to late 1950s. (10) When were the days? Apparently they didn't exist. Hoover was out office before the "Hit Parade" was ever on the radio. What is this crap? Didn't anybody bother to tell Norman Lear?
I wonder whose bright idea it was to put a cooking segment on WCAX at 7:13 AM. I don't know about you, but I feel nauseous enough at that time of the morning.
Hypothetically, if Kiss, Curley and Miller were all equally qualified, and you liked them all just as well, wouldn’t you have to vote for Miller, simply because she’s a woman? Wouldn’t you? I would. The fact that the house wins ties keeps casinos rich and men in power. I share Bill Clinton’s view of affirmative action exactly. I believe in promotion on merit first, and then if merit is equal, on the principle that diversity per se is valuable.
When I was a Neilson Family (They go by household, and I lived alone at the time) I did what I could to give Daria high ratings. I plastered that cartoon girl's name all over my little viewer diary.
Of course. Check out this weirdness from the phoney "vermontsenaterace.com" What the hell is going on? (I've saved the comment on my own server, because I refuse to link to a sleazy shill website set up by the right-wing scheme machine. They wouldn't recognize true democracy, even if it shot them in the face.)
BurlingtonPol Trivia: This mayoral debate was the first not to feature Peter Clavelle since Paul Lafayette ran against Bernie Sanders in 1987.
Tonight (2/13/6) the five candidates for mayor of Burlington faced off in the first of four scheduled debates at the Ohavi Zedek Synagogue on North Prospect Street. The debate was formatted to allow all candidates to answer each question posed by defense attorney and local landlord Mark Kaplan, who moderated.
Seated in the audience were three mayors and a ministerial advisor from Turkey...
Philip Baruth has a great interview with Hinda Miller over at Vermont Daily Briefing. Check that out.
Meanwhile, an attendee at last night's mayoral debate has posted a comment under the "When Cowmen Attack" story below regarding Mr. Cowman's debate perfomance. That's worth looking at, too.
I can't beleive the responses this site has received in just a few weeks. If I only had some technichal skill, we might actually have something here.
Keep coming back, and tell one of your cable access watchin', AM radio listenin', conspiracry theorizin' North Avenue News Readin' nutjob political junky friends too!
On January 2 I was commenting on an iburlington post about nudists on channel 15, and in a ramble about public access shows said "Louie the Cowman cranks out shows too, but he doesn't really know what he's talking about."
I guess what I should have said is "he's short on specifics, but I like his spirit and a lot of his general ideas" but I often can be insensitive and just sort of blurt easily misinterpreted stuff.
Anyway, 19 days later I guess he came across the string and wrote back:
Haik
I always know what i'm talking about, esp when I say that you didn't do crap as a city councilman. If you've been watching my show for the last 10 years, you know that I not the only one who says this. Go crawl back under your rock.
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Haik Take a Haik, Ha! Ha!!Now that's funny. Louie The Cowman
I love that he plugged his show after insulting me. He also wins the prize for being the one-millionth person to use that "go take a hike" joke.
So I took the opportunity to plug BurlingtonPol.com:
Louis, Sorry you feel that way. I actually was going to revise my opinion to say that you sometimes DO know what you're talking about. Sometimes. And I enjoy your show.Anyway I'm glad you're out there speaking your mind. I've linked to your site on my new blog...BurlingtonPol.com -Haik
I like Louis the Cowman as much as the next guy, and that exchange we had is utterly trivial, but it did give me a pretext for using the hilarious headline "When Cowmen Attack" which in and of itself is worth comedy gold, in my opinion.
Joanna Cole just called me to try to get me to volunteer for her. It was a cordial conversation, but it lost her my vote. I was trying to explain to her about the ironic possibility (however slim) of someone being elected with less than 50% under the new IRV law, and she just kept contradicting me and repeating 'the way the law is written, you need 50% plus one...'
She's wrong.
Former councilor and legislator Terry Bouricius sent me what he said was the key City Charter language approved by the voters, the House, Senate and signed by the governor, contained in House bill 505 from last session:
(b) All elections of mayor shall be by ballot, using a system of instant runoff voting without a separate runoff election. The chief administrative officer shall implement an instant runoff voting protocol according to these guidelines: (1) The ballot shall give voters the option of ranking candidates in order of preference. (2) If a candidate receives a majority (over 50 percent) of first preferences, that candidate is elected. (3) If no candidate receives a majority of first preferences, an instant runoff retabulation shall be performed by the board of civil authority within five business days of the election. The instant runoff retabulation shall be conducted in rounds. In each round, each voter's ballot shall count as a single vote for whichever continuing candidate the voter has ranked highest. The candidate with the fewest votes after each round shall be eliminated until only two candidates remain, with thecandidate then receiving the greatest number of votes being elected. (4) The city council may adopt additional regulations consistent with this subsection to implement these standards.
So if everyone ranks only one choice, or there aren't enough second or third place choices to bring someone to majority, the person with the most votes wins.
But that's not the point. The point is: if you're a candidate, don't continually contradict a potential supporter and not let him finish making his statement- Especially if you're wrong.
Another reason to oppose Cole is her position in favor of fluoridation of city water, which is in direct contradiction to that of Carmen George, fellow ward 7 Democrat and junior city councilor. When I asked Cole about this at the Democratic caucus January 5, she cited her credentials as "a scientist" (she's a retired chemistry teacher) and then pointed to her own children's good teeth as proof that water fluoridation has improved America's dental health. Do I have to point out that anecdotes are not proof?
Also, she's a total carpetbagger. She hasn't even lived in Burlington two years. How is she going to represent us, when she's barely even been through a Vermont winter? Why does she want to? Hmmm...
I'm probably going to vote for Ellie. One, because I've known her eleven years and served with her on the council. Two, because a few years ago she was booted by the new north end Dems for not blindly supporting school-tax increases. She ran for re-election as an independent and won. Good for her! The Progs did the same thing when they dumped me and ran Tom Smith in 1997. Funny how the irony of fate works. He was supposed to be less controversial than me.
If you google "Hinda Miller" a few interesting things come up, including this interview she did with girlzone.com "where every girl is cool" and this column she wrote for msmoney.com imparting philosophy.
For a couple of weeks I’ve been trying to figure out if Republican Senate candidate Richard Tarrant has ever been elected to any public office before seeking to represent the State of Vermont (where he doesn’t even live) in the upper house of Congress. I emailed that question to his campaign every day for a week. They ignored me and never wrote back, so the other day I asked Peter Freyne. Peter responded “Not that I'm aware of.” A better answer than nothing, but still not definitive, so I kept looking.
Then I came across this piece in Saint Michael’s College newspaper The Echo online. The answer wasn’t in there, but I emailed Echo executive editor Jeff Morton who wrote it. Morton graciously did some digging for me and replied with this quote from the transcript of his interview with Tarrant:
“I did run for select board in South Burlington in 60’s and lost so I am basically new to the game.”
So there’s the scoop. It’s attributable to The Echo, but you probably heard it here first. This guy has never been elected anything. Not to a select board, a council or a school board. Not as mayor, justice of the peace, election inspector or dog catcher. And he wants to go straight to the US Senate, ahead of a man who lead our city for eight years and has represented Vermont in the US House since 1990.
What a joke.
The people of Vermont are not that dumb and we can’t be bought. I doubt very much he would have put someone with ZERO experience in charge of IDX. Nor should we entertain the ridiculous notion that Tarrant is in any way qualified to go to the Senate. He’s got some serious dues to pay before that. The kind you can’t just buy. And he might as pay those dues in Florida where he lives.
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