Marie
\n St. Fleur<\/a>, a Black woman born in the Caribbean. Unfortunately,
\n a cursory investigation discovered within 24 hours that St. Fleur owes
\n over $13,000 in delinquent Federal income taxes, and over $40,000 on
\n a delinquent
\n student
\n loan.
\n In addition,
\n she
\n cannot
\n renew
\n her
\n driver’s licence since she has not paid her city excise taxes. She
\n resigned from the ticket the next day.<\/p>\nThe Republican is Kerry Murphy Healy, another Harvard
\n grad and the Boston Irish ballot balancing current Lieutenant Governor,
\n and the Independent is Cristy Mihos, millionaire businessman and Director
\n of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Rounding out the field, at about
\n a million-to-one odds, is the Rainbow party’s Grace Ross, another thoroughbred
\n out of the Harvard stables, and Coordinator of Sisters Together Ending
\n Poverty.<\/p>\n
Speaking as a political tout, we can’t work up a single
\n calorie of heat over any of these morons. What do they all
\n have in common? Money, ego, ambition, good suits and expensive haircuts,
\n with the exception of Ms. Ross.<\/p>\n
What strikes us most as we watch this depressing race
\n shape up, is how little the collection of candidates resembles the legions
\n of voters they hope will lift them to the corner office at the State
\n House come November. Where are the teachers, programmers, butchers, pharmacists,
\n farmers, writers, artists and truck drivers?. When did the political
\n class ascend to such a lofty level that only they are allowed to run
\n for office?<\/p>\n
Why don’t our leaders look more like US, and why can’t
\n voters elect somebody who actually works for a living, doing something
\n they can understand?<\/p>\n
The Dowbrigade believes that we the people have been
\n conditioned over the years to such a state of low self-esteem, bordering
\n in self-hate, that we believe that ordinary people like us could not
\n possibly lead a city, or a state, or a nation. Like a battered spouse
\n we have come over time to accept our degradation, to believe that we
\n somehow deserve to be treated like millions of mentally retarded revenue
\n streams to be milked and manipulated.<\/p>\n
And maybe we do. We elected these fools, after all.
\n We have somehow been conned into believing that this collection of coifed,
\n coached
\n and
\n cultured
\n elitists
\n we have elected are smarter, more capable and more morally upstanding
\n than our mailman, florist or dental hygienist.<\/p>\n
How tragically inaccurate these impressions are is
\n rapidly becoming clear. Whether we can modify the method by which our
\n leaders are called to power remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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