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Local REPUBLICANS have committed a dreadful boo-boo.
They failed to meet a registration deadline (September 25) with the local Board of Elections to get their names on the ballot, so now the REPUBLICAN incumbents in nearby Victor can only be reelected by write-in.
Also included are two Democrats in nearby East Bloomfield.
Long ago, when I worked for the bank fresh out of college, I was told by a staunch REPUBLICAN, who was making a mockery of banking regulations to advance his bank-branch: “Rules are made to be broken.”
—Unless, of course, those rules advance your fevered agenda, in which case you hold your opponents’ feet to the fire.
So of course THE REPUBLICANS took the Board of Elections to State Supreme Court, in hopes of getting the rules bent.
But the Court overturned their petition(s).
“These laws have been around a long time,” the judge said. “I am duty-bound to follow the law as it exists.”
“A disservice to voters!” a REPUBLICAN screamed.
That’s all we need — a precedent for bending the rules.
Years ago at Transit we had a rule whereby if you showed up one second late for work, your work was given to an extra, and you lost that day’s pay.
Seemed eminently fair. It took the mindless management minions out of the equation.
They failed to meet a registration deadline (September 25) with the local Board of Elections to get their names on the ballot, so now the REPUBLICAN incumbents in nearby Victor can only be reelected by write-in.
Also included are two Democrats in nearby East Bloomfield.
Long ago, when I worked for the bank fresh out of college, I was told by a staunch REPUBLICAN, who was making a mockery of banking regulations to advance his bank-branch: “Rules are made to be broken.”
—Unless, of course, those rules advance your fevered agenda, in which case you hold your opponents’ feet to the fire.
So of course THE REPUBLICANS took the Board of Elections to State Supreme Court, in hopes of getting the rules bent.
But the Court overturned their petition(s).
“These laws have been around a long time,” the judge said. “I am duty-bound to follow the law as it exists.”
“A disservice to voters!” a REPUBLICAN screamed.
That’s all we need — a precedent for bending the rules.
Years ago at Transit we had a rule whereby if you showed up one second late for work, your work was given to an extra, and you lost that day’s pay.
Seemed eminently fair. It took the mindless management minions out of the equation.
Labels: Oh how the mighty have fallen
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