Hey, It’s Election Day!

Hey, it is election day! And, depending on where you live, you might actually have a contested race in this primary. Since virtually every state legislator took the pay raise — the real tricky ones voted against it and then took it — the people have risen up! It’s democracy in action! Whoo!

Well, until they all get trounced today and we have the same state representatives we’ve always had. But, hey, at least none of our current lawmakers kick kittens. As far as I know.

There’s also a race for U.S. Senate, where state treasurer and noted mime Bob Casey faces a pair of upstart challengers that may, if they’re lucky, combine for about 10 percent of the vote. However, in early exit polling, Chuck Pennachio leads Casey and Alan Sandals 100 percent to 0. Of course, I only polled Albert Yee. It is raining today, so there’s a chance that only about 15 people will vote — which usually bodes well for underdogs.

The biggest things on the ballot today are, of course, the two referendums we citizens of Philadelphia are being asked. The first question is kind of the same thing as the question last year, i.e. ethics board and no “pay to play” and all that jazz. I don’t know why we need to be asked again, but, hey, whatever.

The other question concerns a proposal to put up cameras in “high-crime areas” so that the police might be able to catch criminals easier. As my only endorsement of this election, let me urge you to vote no on this. No, it’s not the Big Brother stylings of it — please, we’re filmed everywhere we go — it’s that I know very well that the City of Philadelphia will have these cameras and somehow screw things up. Come on. You know a crook will commit a crime right in front of a camera, and a raccoon will have eaten the tape or something, and it’ll be a mess.

Actually, that’d be kind of funny. Maybe you want to vote yes on that after all.

At Pa. polls, a moment of truth [Inky]