Tuesday 19 April 2011

For whom fern hill votes

I was not fully informed when I said that I'm voting Liberal.

Thanks to the Star, I thought there were no fun fringe parties represented in my riding: just Con, Lib, NDP, and Green.

I emailed the Lib to find out if she's pro-choice because I'd be in a pickle if she's not. (Some may remember that I also have serious problems with the Greenies.)

I just checked with Elections Canada and found that I do have fun fringers to choose between.

* Barney, Rachel (Green Party)
* Brown, Chester (Libertarian)
* Chow, Olivia (NDP-New Democratic Party)
* Innes, Christine (Liberal)
* Lin, Nick (Marxist-Leninist)
* Siow, Gin (Conservative)

Voting for a loser doesn't bother me in the slightest. As a bi-national, I have voted for John Anderson, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale, mostly because of Geraldine.

So, what'll it be, blogosphere? Libertarian or Marxist-Leninist?

7 comments:

Dr.Dawg said...

Since Chow is included in your list of "fringers," vote for her.

fern hill said...

Cute. That's the entire list.

JJ said...

Libertarian??!! :) :) :)
(But prepare to be denigrated as a "teabagger".)

fern hill said...

I've just done a little more research. The M-L, guy Nick Lin, is persistent. He's run every time since 2000. He gets about 0.2% of the vote. I might encourage him with mine.

On the other hand, Trinity-Spadina hasn't had a Libertarian candidate since 1993. That seems to be a party REALLY in need of encouragement.

So, far one vote here for Libertarian. One vote on Twitter for Marxist-Leninist.

JJ: Today I was called a 'Liberal dickhead'. 'Teabagger' would even the insults up.

ck said...

Marxist-Leninist. That tends to get a bigger rise from the neighbours these days.

Ok, disclosure here. A former co-worker, now retired was the coolest at our office; managed to keep all the secretaries in our building out of trouble, her husband was a Marxist-Leninist in the early 70s.

Beijing York said...

One of my favourite and most inspiring professors in Poli-Sci was a Marxist-Leninist. I can't help but admire their idealism.

Jacqui said...

Go for Chow! :)

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