One participant says another is "out of touch with workers" because of a party assembly scheduled on Monday night. But then the list manager asks why a special election isn't scheduled on a workday since that's the "traditional" day for elections.
Looking at the big picture, it seems to me that no one really wants to schedule anything on the weekend which would interfere with leisure and entertainment. Politics is "work", and America just doesn't like to "work" on the weekend if it can possibly avoid it (though retail workers obviously always have to work on the weekends, and us people who make sure the ATMs keep working also can't take those days off). Really, what IS the "reality" for workers these days of 7/24? Maybe the working class now considers every day equivalent. I guess when you have a meeting to schedule a convention or election, the people PRESENT try to represent all those who don't come. I'm for scheduling everything that isn't gainful employment whenever it least INTERFERES with that gainful employment. Unlike the list manager, my notion of a sound election system is (a)it happens on days when it doesnt force too many to miss work (b) it never happens on "one day or forget it". And if it is a BIG election, America takes the day off. I mean, heck, most people probably won't work tomorrow. Why? Because all the malls hold sales. So if a huge portion of workers can be off to go to Christmas sales, why can't America give them a day off to VOTE. Frankly, the lack of that amenity has always made me think someone somewhere didn't want workers to vote, let alone pick candidates. ===== Jim Mork -- Cooper Neighborhood ________________________________ Help stop spam -- Join SpamCon Foundation, http://www.spamcon.org __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
