power to the people

Millwood Matters: Impressive Turnout for Uncontested Vote

Hala Makowska on election night

By Gene Nadel
December 14, 2007

Supported by a remarkable turnout for an uncontested election, Hala Makowska won a five year term on the Millwood Board of Fire Commissioners (BOFC) on Tuesday as 149 concerned fire district residents exercised their franchise and cast their ballots for the sole candidate. An additional 16 voters expressed their choice by write-in votes for Norman Hay, the retiring commissioner who chose not to stand for reelection. The typical turnout for an uncontested election for this office is rarely more than two to three dozen.

power to the people...alhtough are they honest with their hearts?...do they support expression or just this issue concerns them to speak up FOR THEIR RIGHTS...not universal rights...this journal censored me back in October from taping Peter Appelbombe at a class on citizen journalism...I thought it was funny how Susie Pender was touting the expression of the people and then in a heart beat stifled mine...

but the internet is a funny place these days...social media does not respect arbitrary authority...it is power to the people...and if it is denied in one place it can surface just as quickly in other...even easily co-opting the other media..

the charge of the light brigade is on now...errol fynnn...olivia de havilland...set in india...oh what a racist gay film...you wouldn't see this shit today so obviously although the same vibe is going down stronger than ever thankz to the american military industrial complex with its bombs and terror over Iraq and it's pilferirng of natural resources...

so I say, power to the people...long live the new social media and web 2.0...lord only knows what beast slopes towards bethlehem next....

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