Celebrities on voting

[sunflower]

It's almost a little too much to bear, how much they give themselves credit for...this is my favorite line (spoken by P Diddy or just Diddy, whatever his name is today):

“I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that’s how much power it felt like I had,” the hip-hop mogul said.

AND

“I’m not trying to be dramatic, but I just felt like, Martin Luther King, and I felt the whole civil rights movement, I felt all that energy, and I felt my kids,” he said. “It was all there at one time. It was a joyous moment.”

Here's the rest of the article, with some more quotes from some more B list celebrities...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27538421/

[silvercamaro]

I love this article. It's so sincere!

Yes, Pete Wentz, I desperately care about your political preferences! I can't believe that I just up and voted without checking with you first. I'm so bummed.

(Actually, I do kind of like Diddy's "my vote makes the difference" attitude, apart from the ego he has invested in that statement. I would like everybody to feel that way.)

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I've never voted based on who a celebrity endorses.

[gsabc]

It's almost a little too much to bear, how much they give themselves credit for...this is my favorite line (spoken by P Diddy or just Diddy, whatever his name is today):

“I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be my vote. And that may not be true, but that’s how much power it felt like I had,” the hip-hop mogul said.

On that subject:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/02 ... tion-odds/

Watch out for the gawdawfully loud advertisement that comes up on the same page.

[mellytu74]

(Actually, I do kind of like Diddy's "my vote makes the difference" attitude, apart from the ego he has invested in that statement. I would like everybody to feel that way.)

My sentiments exactly.

Diddy made similar statements to a get-out-the-vote rally here yesterday.

He was very emphatic about owning your vote and the responsibility to yourself and your country.

MY vote is the one that pushes him/her/my ticket over the top.

So, yeah, except for the ego invested in this particular context, it's pretty much the message from yesterday.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

This morning, I had a meeting with Emma's principal. (We are working on a committee together that is recommending boundary changes to the School Board. A powerpoint presentation was being finalized before public meetings and we were making some recommendations about the wording.)

She does daily announcement and she talked about voting and making choices and taking responsibility for the choices that you make. She was inspirting.

After she made the announcement, I made a comment about how I thought that morning announcements were on a PA system. (She does it on the phone.) Then I told her that she had a profound message for the kids and she showed me her binders when she kept stories organized by key word.

We were talking for two or three minutes when her secretary came in.

She told us that the PA system was not turned off.

I can only imagine poor Emma sitting in her class, wondering why my voice coming over the PA system.

[BackInTex]

This morning, I had a meeting with Emma's principal. (We are working on a committee together that is recommending boundary changes to the School Board. A powerpoint presentation was being finalized before public meetings and we were making some recommendations about the wording.)

Good for you to get involved in that.

About 2 years ago my wife and I found out the school board was considering rezoning our neighborhood as part of an overall realignment of the school district when two new high schools opened (this fall). We had no clue that was happening. As we found out, the principles at each school got to appoint the neighborhood rep for each neighborhood. Well, our rep was a not doing his job. He preferred us to be rezoned so he didn't get the word out. Oops.

My wife and I are pretty well connected to the neighborhood being on the board of the swim team and she being the big PTO mom she is. We organized a group of volunteers, printed 2,500 flyers letting everyone know what may happend and encouraging everyone to send an email to the school board letting them know what they thought. We didn't specify on the flyer what they should say or suggest what their choice should be, just that we had been rezoned twice in the previous 5 years already.

The volunteers put the flyer on every home in the neighborhood. It is a big neighborhood. My wife went to the next school board meeting and spoke to the board (they have 10-12 citizen slots each meeting where you sign up to talk to the board for 180 seconds). Afterwards two board members approached her and thanked her for coming and speaking. They said they appreciated our position but the board already had the recommendations from the outside consultant on what the boundary options were. None of them satisfied us. The board members said that if we could make our own viable recomendation they would consider it.

So that next day my wife went to the district office and got all the data she could; school capacities, neighborhood population projections, etc. I then went about modeling various scenarious addressing the concerns the board said they had (over crowding, allow growth in certain corridors, minimizing neighborhood rezoning impact, ect.)

I sent my scenario to the board the next week. At the next monthly meeting, the consultant presented his proposals. The two board members then asked "What if you kept neighborhood A where it is at and instead moved B, then instead of moving neighborhood C to school 2, move them to school 3? the consultant redid his maps on the software ( I wish I had it) and he said sheepishly 'yes, that does work'.

Two months later, the actual alignments were voted in, and except for one large neighborhood to the north of us, the new alignments were my plan, exactly.

Up front we were told by friends, neighbors, and some school officials that the alignments wouldn't be changed from what the consultant put out. That the board always went with the consultants recomendations. Well, it just goes to show, you can fight city hall, and sometimes win. This is the 3rd largest school district in Texas, now with over 100,000 students.

BiT, the community organizer.

[jayhawker536]

I watched D L Hughley (sp) on CNN the other night. He said something that upset me, something along the lines that he was so happy that they might finally put a black man in as president but he was raised by white people, I suppose he was trying to be funny.

Al Sharpton happened to be his guest. I cringe to think that I agree with Al Sharpton on anything but his reply was on target. Barack Obama is a man who is running for president, a very smart man. He just happens to be black and he is also as much white as he is black.

It upsets me that so many who are going to the polls are voting for only that reason, it is a shame that they have not researched the man. They have done themselves a disservice. They have done him a disservice by tauting the "black" issue.

[MarleysGh0st]

This morning, I had a meeting with Emma's principal. (We are working on a committee together that is recommending boundary changes to the School Board. A powerpoint presentation was being finalized before public meetings and we were making some recommendations about the wording.)

She does daily announcement and she talked about voting and making choices and taking responsibility for the choices that you make. She was inspirting.

After she made the announcement, I made a comment about how I thought that morning announcements were on a PA system. (She does it on the phone.) Then I told her that she had a profound message for the kids and she showed me her binders when she kept stories organized by key word.

We were talking for two or three minutes when her secretary came in.

She told us that the PA system was not turned off.

I can only imagine poor Emma sitting in her class, wondering why my voice coming over the PA system.

Emma must have dug a hole in the floor, squirming under her desk in embarrassment!

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

This morning, I had a meeting with Emma's principal. (We are working on a committee together that is recommending boundary changes to the School Board. A PowerPoint presentation was being finalized before public meetings and we were making some recommendations about the wording.)

She does daily announcement and she talked about voting and making choices and taking responsibility for the choices that you make. She was inspiring.

After she made the announcement, I made a comment about how I thought that morning announcements were on a PA system. (She does it on the phone.) Then I told her that she had a profound message for the kids and she showed me her binders when she kept stories organized by key word.

We were talking for two or three minutes when her secretary came in.

She told us that the PA system was not turned off.

I can only imagine poor Emma sitting in her class, wondering why my voice coming over the PA system.

Emma must have dug a hole in the floor, squirming under her desk in embarrassment!

The funny thing is that Emma told me that her principal did the morning announcements and kept talking to "somebody" in her office. Her teacher said that he wasn't going to say anything about it to the office because he wanted to hear any gossip. I asked Emma if she knew who was talking to her principal and she said no. She was surprised when I told her that it was me.

[MarleysGh0st]

The funny thing is that Emma told me that her principal did the morning announcements and kept talking to "somebody" in her office. Her teacher said that he wasn't going to say anything about it to the office because he wanted to hear any gossip. I asked Emma if she knew who was talking to her principal and she said no. She was surprised when I told her that it was me.

Ignorance is bliss!