I’m going through my work mail this morning, like the good little glarGH I am, and I see an email from a “Jill Scott”, Subject Line: “hi…” I’m thinking maybe it’ll be somethin cool, like a prospective customer or some naughty pics. Instead, what I find is much less stimulating, but infinitely more confusing.
Why the hell are you sending spam to me? I don’t even live in your bloody voter area!! I’m a full CONTINENT and HALF A DAMN OCEAN away!! Even if I did, there’s no way in hell I’d vote for you now that you have contaminated my Inbox. MA Dopers, don’t vote for the “Spammer Candidate”!
Don’t worry about it. She’ll finish way behind the other independent, Jill Stein. Almost nobody in MA knows or cares who she is, either. FTR, she’s the Libertarian and Stein is the Green - at least we have a balance of wingnuts.
Barbara Johnson is decidedly not the Libertarian. Carla Howell is the Libertarian, and she’s doing a better job than most candidates from that party I remember in the past. Barbara Johnson is the “Independent” candidate, and she is a nutjob. My favorite quote so far, from Friday’s Boston Metro:
Q (posed to all the candidates): What will you do for younger people in Massachusetts if you are elected?
A: Legalize pot and tax it.
(She had several one-liners like this in the "candidates answer voters’ questions article, while all the other candidates at least had reasonably articulate answers, even if some of them were fatheaded).
Oh yes, sorry, ENugent. I’d call Howell a nut too, actually - she’s pushing that initiative to simply immediately abolish the state income tax and then hope things just work themselves out somehow. “Because”, as her radio ads repeatedly say, “Remember, small government is beautiful.”
Easy enough to say if you know you’ll never have to deal with the real consequences, I suppose. That’s both the attraction and the curse of fringe candidates - they don’t have to take any real responsibility for what they say.
I don’t know much about Barbara Johnson’s background, Ike. She looks basically like a grandma - long gray hair and hideous oversized glasses. Does that describe the one you’re thinking of?