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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>:

> On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:32 AM, SJC wrote:
>
> > I realized recently that I too am maybe more cynical than anything
> > else.  The first time I felt that was near the end of the last
> > election, and this time it's really sinking in.
> >
> > It's a sorry thing to contemplate, and leaves one feeling powerless.
>

Understood.

>
> You are a powerful sovereign person.
>
> 1. Votes count. Remember Florida.


I do. It's one reason (of many) why I am cynical. Votes count, the ones that
are not 'lost', 'stolen', 'missing' or were not cast in the first place
because a person was purged from a list, disenfranchised, or intentionally
re-routed to another polling place with a very long line. Etcetera.

2. Your vote at the checkout counter may well be more powerful than in
> the election booth.


Yes.

>
> 3. The example of your life will be an influence on someone.


Still working on this one....

Lisa
sw VA
...who has had the cup of coffee or two and yet the cynicism remains, gosh
darn it.
Apples are calling my name, making sauce & cobbler filling makes me feel the
three P's (powerful, productive & positive)....