that it should be a holiday<\/a>. Of course, the people complaining also seem like the people who do find a way to get to the polls. And I always laugh at such a blatant example of how out of touch people like that really are.<\/p>\nFor one, who is it that they believe can’t make it to the polls? I am guessing they envision people with minimum wage jobs who are afraid to speak up and actually take time to vote as is allowed by law, providing they are actually at work during voting hours.<\/p>\n
But, how many of these minimum wage workers are also working on weekends, on holidays. Why is it that people think voting turn out would be any different? And we do have absentee voting as well as early voting now. Again, who is it that is not voting that would magically appear if voting day was a holiday or on a Saturday? Maybe the people who are not voting already understand that most of what happens in government screws them, insults them and says it’s for their own good. Why bother voting for that?<\/p>\n
And on that note, happy voting day. I do know who I am voting for. But, I’m curious where to rank Nosemarie, Clu, and Puff this year for St Paul mayor?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’ll be putting Clu at the top of my ballot.\u00a0 \u00a0 Nose and Puff have both left is in the past 18 months, so they are no probably registered as DFL voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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