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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:50:49 -0500
From:         ANTHLAL@UMNACVX.BITNET
Subject:      the low spark of high-heeled boys

hey-ho, just got back from voting.  yowza.  i would go out tonight to do
a little election-night roulette, which as some of you long-time posters
will remember, is my favorite election pastime...but actually i am a bit
ambivalent about the game here in minnesota.  in kentucky, you can always
count on good bourbon at the respective headquarters.  not to denigrate in
any way the nectar of the northern plains, the immortal grain belt beer,
but....
the big contest here is for supreme court justice.  arne carlson, our
delightful governor (is *everybody* up here named lundquist or nordstrom
or carlson or johnson?), illegally reappointed justice yetka to the bench.
somebody who wanted the job protested, filed suit, and now we all are
voting.  look for former minnesota viking alan page (don't ask.  it's a
long story) to win.
gerry sikorski, the man with the golden checkbook (he only bounced 619 of
them) is running against some guy named tad jude, and this race is too
close to call.  (ad hominem, scurrilous sentence coming up in ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, we are a go for largely
unsubstantiated and nasty comments about tad jude....lift off) jude
is a really dreadful little man, who wants to open up all sorts of
wilderness area to commerce, who advised that they pave roads with that
kind of gravelly-ash stuff that you drive over until it mushes down and
forms the pavement and although this is no big deal, advised that maybe
that would be a good way to dispose of this toxic ash that some paper mill
or something was dumping in landfills. jude has never worked in community
service, and has no government experience...but he will probably unseat sikorski
    because of the house check thing and because he is the handpicked right-to-
life candidate.  whatever.  doesn't matter that he
is gonna really mess up minnesota government, but by god "our" candidate
is gonna get elected.  yuk.  enough to make you actually go to the polls and
vote for the ineffective-but-not-harmful-anyway sikorski.  at least, it
did me.
the commercials up here are really amazing.  the title on this post comes from
one that i saw on late-night tv, paid for by the committee to elect tad jude,
warning about the dangers of giving women the freedom to choose abortion.
according to this committee, you give women the right to choose, the next
thing you know, you got transsexuals  hangin' out, shootin' up drugs,
smokin' crack.  cats and dogs, living together.  anarchy.  tsch.

martin, or whatever your name is (i already deleted that post, sorry) :
"blood from a turnip" is a good ol' sayin' from my gran.  you use it when
someone wants something impossible.  "...you might as well try to get
blood from a turnip as a check for several hundred dollars out of me"
would be the complete phrase in question.  "you might as well try to
get blood from a turnip before you'll get a date with becky sue" is also
a common variant on this theme.  at any rate, it's not any kind of
technical terminology...although i could see where you might confuse
politics with vegetables a lot of the time.

so, um, get out there and vote.  when i know who's the official pollkeeper
(are you the gatemaster?  i am the pollkeeper), i'll send in my virtual
vote.  rumors of my candidacy for anything but "stupidest list member" are
greatly exaggerated.

                      * * anneliese "hey.  john barleycorn must die. yeah." l.
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