I hate voting because everyone sucks.

Tomorrow is the Moscow municipal election, and – well – everyone sucks.

Wannabe Gun-Grabber Nancy Chaney (incumbent) is up against Smoking-Ban-Voting John Weber for Mayor. Great.

Out of the six city council candidates:
1) Walter Steed voted for the smoking ban,
2) Nels Reese is this guy,
3) Scott Billing couldn’t give The Inconvenience a single ordinance he’d support repealing (he claimed he wasn’t familiar enough with the code to pick anything – um, hello, candidate?!),
4) Timothy Brown says, “Provide safe and secure living environment through adequate police and fire department funding” – bzzzt, wrong answer,
5) Susan Scott has some good things to say about economic development, but wants to swing the weight of the City Council in ways I’m not comfortable with to improve life for senior citizens and “work for affordable housing for our children” (how about the free market?)
and
6) Dennis Deccio… well, actually, what I’ve read of him doesn’t suck so bad. But, he doesn’t have a website and I can’t find that much about his positions online, other than being on a “Conservative responsible pro growth platform.” Maybe I’ll track him down tomorrow and grill him on a few things.

So, while I was writing this, I found out there are actually seven candidates. Autry White is running as a write-in candidate, and he’s pissed off about the smoking ban and the revised noise ordinance.

I had forgotten about the revised noise ordinance, which made it so the police can act as complainant. Yep. Grrrrreat idea. I finally tracked down the minutes from that city council meeting to verify what I suspected, and wouldn’t you know, Weber and Steed voted for that one, too. EPIC FAIL.

Anyway, I kinda like this Autry guy. He’s unconventional, he seems to agree that everyone sucks, and he (unlike myself) actually got off his ass to do more than bitch about it. He also said,

Autry believes that individual rights should never be compromised – this country was founded on the principal [sic] of freedom.

And while that’s the wrong homophone, I appreciate the sentiment. He also doesn’t seem very interested in promoting anything new, but quite actively desires the repeal of at least two ordinances, so he has that over all of the other candidates. (Okay, okay, to be totally fair, he has a couple of goofy ideas he’s promoting, but nothing that would ever gain any traction, so I’ll consider that as good as not promoting anything.)

So: Not voting for Mayor because I can’t choose between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich. Maybe voting for Deccio, probably writing in Autry.

Thus ends the Official PGB Moscow Muni Voting Guide 2009. Consider yourself edified.

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