Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Purple PUMA


I hope we all can agree to improve the voting process. Purple fingers are my new passion.
Perhaps Starbucks can be a corporate sponsor of this movement.
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3 comments:

Kathie Brinkman said...

Pardon my ignorance. I don't get it.

11/06/2008 12:52:00 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...

Kathie:
Dr. Martz warned us that when you have to de-joke the joke, it's not funny anymore. But to explicate:

Iraq held free, open and fair elections in the midst of a war. People who voted were marked with the purple finger. Enemies who didn't want them to vote had an easy target for a couple days [until it washed off] of who 'defied' them by voting. And so, the purple finger simultaneously became a symbol of fair elections [you only vote once] and in-your-face to the factions who did not want a free Iraq. And, that this is a woman in an Islamic nation is just one more ding against the forces of ignorance.

Fast forward to our election in 2008. Law suits are pending in 13 states [hmmm...mostly close battleground states....curious...] against ACORN and other community organizing groups [several in Ohio] who, taking advantage of lax or ill-conceived election laws, committed fraud in voter registration. Some of those fraudulant registrants voted [Ohio has several cases]. There's a YouTube of a fellow admitting to voting several times this election. Purple fingers [and limiting early or absentee voting] would minimize voter fraud.

Starbucks in a PR ploy offered to give away a cup of coffee on election day to anyone who had voted. I'm suspecting people might've lied a little to get the free cup.

So....purple fingers are a sign of clean elections and defiance of oppression. Fraud in registration and voting is happeneing in the U.S. to some degree. Starbucks might've lost some money because of the inability to verify who indeed voted. And PUMA [Party Unity, My A$$] went against their own party to vote for McCain. Purple finger folks would probably have to defy the entrenched bureaucrats of both parties. Plus, it's an alliterative title.

That's all. Quite a very long walk on a short pier.

11/06/2008 01:23:00 PM
Peggy Gero DaValt said...

Glad I wasn't the only one, Kathie....

As a professor at Ripon told me in class one day my freshman year...."ignorance is bliss."

Peggy :)

11/06/2008 01:46:00 PM

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