# Whose voting FICUS ? Michael Moore stirring it again!

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**Created:** [June 28, 2000, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852 "2000-06-28T11:17:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852/1 "2000-06-28T11:17:04Z")

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I was looking at the [Michael Moore](http://www.michaelmoore.com/) show last night and I’m now wondering have many of you heard of the [Vote Ficus](http://www.ficus2000.com/) campaign . If you have did/will you vote for the plant in what is a protest vote ?

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**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852/2 "2000-06-28T13:10:56Z")

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This is a blatant attempt at undermining the Dead Chipmunk campaign, and I, for one, will not stand for it.

That, and they don’t have a Ficus running in my state. Damn.

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**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852/3 "2000-06-28T13:42:48Z")

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I get Michael Moore’s newsletter, and heard about the Ficus race a few weeks ago. It’s a shame and a pity that no one in my district was running a Ficus.

It ALSO blows considerable monkey-chunks that “The Awful Truth” runs on Bravo (in my area) at the same time that “South Park” is on. How am I supposed to decide? And we can’t get the stupid VCR to record one channel while we’re watching another.

That’s it. I have to buy a new VCR.

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**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852/4 "2000-06-28T15:24:20Z")

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Yojimbo, I saw it too!! It rocks quite considerably, and our U.S. frinds wont be able to see it until tonight.

p.s. Did you mail him liked he asked?

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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whose-voting-ficus-michael-moore-stirring-it-again/23852/5 "2000-06-28T16:05:01Z")

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He was playing quarter slot machines at an Indian casino in Acme, Mich.

Told him how much I liked his stuff; how pissed I was when they took his NBC show off the air, etc.

He was playing one quarter at a time in a three-quarter machine. You’d think he’d have the money to be more of a high-roller …