Vote for Me-I'm Good Looking
June 11, 2004
No, not me - I'm far too busy running Brightspark!
That was the impression I got when I went off to vote today. I knew how I'd be voting in the "Let's rush it through like we did Nice I" referendum. And I had a fair idea who I want to send to Europe as an MEP.
But the candidates for the local elections? I hadn't a clue. I was hoping to have a few flyers to read when I got to the polling station but that practise has been outlawed.
So I attempted to cast my vote using the information provided: a photo, their name, their party and their job. Hhm, shall I put a Financial Analyst in there or a Photographer - who hadn't even bothered to submit a photo of himself? Well he definitely wasn't getting my vote - dodgy, faceless person.
Poor old Anrai Mac Somebody or other from Sinn Fein. A bit of the fat side, he won't get the 'good looking' votes. A glance at his occupation and he works as a manager in the telecoms industry - I dislike him already, he's not getting my vote.
It's a pity really because it's the local councillors that can actually make a bit of a difference to my life in a very local level. They can lobby for more recycling facilities in apartment buildings around the city, they can bring a new degree of energy to City Hall. And I voted for a good looking girl and a rather attractive man. How superficial is that! I feel guilty - I don't think that's what Padraig Pearse et al gave their lives for....