# Voters' Pamphlet Oddities **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 30, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865 "2020-04-30T02:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/1 "2020-04-30T02:41:34Z")
So I’m looking through my Oregon Primary pamphlet, both to compare legitimate candidates to choose from, and to spot those candidates and measures that are a little…off. For instance, there is someone(name withheld by me) running for State Representative who, instead of talking about his background, qualifications and positions on specific issues, broke out into song: Just clean up the carbon soon _Cause in 12 years impending doom_ Get all pollution out of sight _Plastic bag ban starts Friday night_ Yakety Yak (Dems smoke crack) Don’t you feed me no gendered hooks _There’s only two you half-baked crooks_ Tell your trans-gendered friend outside _It’s time to go for a naked bike ride_ Yakety Yak (don’t talk back) Men don’t get no menstrual bleed _Only testes make that baby’s seed_ If you can’t get straight mentally _Maybe you should get a lobotomy_ Yakety Yak (Don’t smoke crack) There were more verses, but I’m sure you get the idea. So, are there any oddities in _your_ voters’ pamphlet? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/2 "2020-04-30T03:41:54Z")
The Oregon voter’s pamphlet often rewards a close reading. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/3 "2020-04-30T22:09:19Z")
There was also another one running for Portland City Commissioner who didn’t have a full grasp on what his duties might be if he won: > [@](#): > > I heard a songbird singing. I heard a woodpecker knocking. > May this always be so. > SAVE THE BEES > GROW THE WILDFLOWERS > My vision is to Restore Wildflowers, Restore meadows, Restore falling bee populations. The babbling continues on for another paragraph or so. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/4 "2020-04-30T23:19:25Z")
And all this time I’ve been taking one to be polite and throwing it into the nearest trash bin to avoid littering. Oh the literary gems I’ve missed. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/5 "2020-05-01T02:54:16Z")
I don’t know if his positions were published in voters’ guides but a planning commissioner in the small city of Cotati California, home of the Cotati Accordion Festival _(“Accordions don’t play Lady of Spain - people do!”)_ regularly attended meetings with a paper grocery bag over his head. Politics as performance art? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/6 "2020-05-02T02:43:34Z")
The OP example is just more transphobic hate speech and neither cute nor clever. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/7 "2020-05-02T04:03:07Z")
I’m always on the lookout for irreverent entries in the Oregon Voters’ Pamphlet. When I used to live in Jackson county, there was a person running for some position with the city of Ashland who claimed that he would eliminate money and switch everything to a bartering system. I also seem to recall a period where a person named Bill Sizemore was constantly getting unpopular measures put on the ballot, and the pamphlet was beginning to fill with statements (anyone can pay to have a statement regarding a measure put in the pamphlet) that were basically just people complaining about Bill Sizemore. I thought it was amusing, anyway. This version has these remarks from Republican candidate for US senator Robert Schwartz: > [@](#): > > We deserve explanations but between using **arbitrary pronouns** and not knowing **what “food” means** [Democrats] are obviously **struggling with words.** (bolding original) His current occupation is “fitness” and his educational background states that he learned all he needs to know from his mom. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/voters-pamphlet-oddities/852865/8 "2020-05-02T04:11:23Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > The OP example is just more transphobic hate speech and neither cute nor clever. I did not use the words "cute’ or “clever”-I said it was _odd_.