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2006 Primary Election Countdown: Only 3 days left! There are now only 3 MORE DAYS until the Adair County Primary Election May 16, 2006. ABSENTEE VOTING MACHINE OPEN Adair County Clerk's Office, Adair County Annex, Public Square, Columbia, KY. Regular office hours. Click here: ColumbiaMagazine Current Rate Card To see "Election Board lists officers for Adair CO, KY primary election 2006" Click Here. Following: More Quotes, Advices, and Political Anecdotes QUOTE from AESOP: "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to office." - AESOP, submitted by CYRUS QUOTE on HOW GOVERNMENTS GET SUPPORTA government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, submitted by CYRUS QUOTE from JAY LENO on VOTING If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. JAY LENO Submitted by CYRUS. QUOTE on the CALL to PUBLIC SERVICE: Many a politician has mistaken the sound of his own voice as the call to run for office. CYRUS. QUOTE: MALCOLM X on TRUTH, JUSTICE, HUMANITY I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole. MALCOLM X, submitted by Susan Remek QUOTE: BARGAIN OFFERED TO AES OPPONENTS in 1952 I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ADLAI STEVENSON, in a 1952 campaign speech. Submitted by Cyrus QUOTE on an IRONY of CAMPAIGNS:"Just remember this: Those who are for you help you. Those who are for you hurt you." QUOTE by MARTIN LUTHER KING:"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR QUOTE on the DAMAGE the TRUTH CAN DO in an ELECTION:<I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you. - WILL ROGERS. Post on the advice of CYRUS QUOTE: T.S. ELIOT on ELECTIONS: An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.- T. S. ELIOT. Submitted by Cyrus. WILL ROGERS QUOTE: ELECTIONS LIKE MARRIAGES: Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. - WILL ROGERS, submitted by CYRUS QUOTE by JOHN F. KENNEDY: I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." - JOHN F. KENNEDY. Submitted by CYRUS STORY on GRAND POLITICAL RASCALITY It happened in Adair County more than 50 years ago, back when vote buying was "legal," i.e., both sides did it. A Democratic campaign had run out of money. But one from their side took a cigar box of watches to a "buy" precinct. "We had all kinds of watches," the politician said, "Timex, wrist watches, pocket watches, Mickey Mouse. Everybody got a fine timepiece," he said, and added, "some of them would run." They carried the precinct. It was a glorious victory, since the Republicans were said to have used money and liquor that year. QUOTE on the PRACTICE of POLITICS:All politics is local- TIP O'NEILL, former speaker of the the U.S. House of Representatives. Submitted by CYRUS QUOTE : A GREAT ADAIR COUNTY CAMPAIGN QUOTE: I'll make roses bloom in January! - COY "SQUARE DEAL" DOWNEY, running for Mayor of Columbia in 1979, back before global warming, back when elections were held in odd years, and back when politics ranked next to basketball in the hearts of the people. Roses didn't bloom in January, but the Dogwood program the colorful Mayor spearheaded then now provides much of the spectacular annual beauty we'll enjoy a few weeks hence. QUOTE on the WHY SOME VOTERS VOTE THE WAY THEY DO:The perception of being a winner is so important. So many people vote for the person they think will win, regardless of how they feel otherwise. They want to be on the winning side, whatever it is. -Former Adair County Republican Chairman GAYLON YARBERRY. QUOTE on the ATTITUDE TOWARD GOOD GOVERNMENT:Some day the people of Louisiana are going to have reform government and they ain't gonna like it.-EARL K. LONG. QUOTES on the Truth in Elections:If I'm elected I won't do a damn thing. I just need the money. -JINGLE WOOTEN, running for a Russell County office a few years back. Jingle was the only honest politician I ever knew. - CYRUS QUOTES on the VALUE OF AN INFORMED ELECTORATE:The ignorance of one voter impairs the security of all. -JOHN F. KENNEDY QUOTES on the VALUE OF BEING INVOLVED:We mean by 'politics,' the people's business: The most important business there is. -ADLAI E. STEVENSON QUOTE on NEED TO VOTE: You don't vote, you don't complain. When you vote that gives you the right to complain. - An Adair County voter who stays informed QUOTE by NIXON ON WINNING ELECTIONSFinishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. - RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON. Submitted by CYRUS. QUOTE on the WHY IT'S HARD TO VOTE FOR THE BEST MAN: We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.--FRANK McKINNEY HUBBARD, a Hooiser worthy of our attention. Submitted by Cyrus. QUOTE: INTELLECTUAL SUICIDE, A PATRIOTIC reminder:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - THEODORE ROOSEVELT submitted by Susan Remek. QUOTE on CONSEQUENCES of FAILURE to VOTEBad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote - Anonymous quote on sign in W.M. Feese, Jr.'s, office Stories, Anecdotes, on Elections and Politics JASON HARMON: Political loyalty: Looking at some 1979 newspaper polling photographer clips, Jason Harmon was reminded of the political proclivities of the men and their opinions. "I thought everyone might enjoy this since election fever seems to be sweeping Adair County," he writes. "My Grandpa is Nolan McGaha. Nolan and Pete Bailey were neighbors at Garlin. Pete's son even married Nolan's daughter. Granpa Nolan had also run for Magistrate once, but I think he lost." The caption under the photo, which follows this article, reads:Jason continues, "I think the election they are talking about was the 1979 election between John Y. Brown and Louie B. Nunn. "I looked up the stats on the election and was puzzled that my grandpa though Nunn had won. "Nunn lost by a fairly big margin. Brown received over 59% of the popular vote. "Grandpa, being a loyal Republican, probably just thought everyone else should be too!" District 3 Issue: Blacktop doesn't equal progress to everyone; voter wants it removed from hill: An interesting election issue this year is over blacktop, with a different angle. An incomer on Powell Creek Road is searching out candidates who will remove the blacktop paving on the Powell Creek Road entrance hill off KY 900. "And I don't want any more blacktop on the road," he said. "When snow falls on the hill, the blacktop is so slick you could slide out onto 900," Bob Henningsen, says. "Somebody could get killed." So far, he hasn't gotten any incumbents to come to his side. Powell Creek Road is just out of Glens Fork, KY, in Magisterial District 3. The Henningsens and their close neighbors have built a beautiful horse country compound of homes, barns, paddocks, and hill top open pastures, off Powell Creek Road. They want to keep the rural charm of the area. That's what drew them here in the first place, they say. A STORY with a POLITICAL MORAL By Ed Waggener Pap told him: Democrats lie. Republicans tell the truth "We gotta tell the truth. Pap always told me: NEVER lie in an election, the way Democrats do. Tell somebody you're going to gravel their road, why, you do it. Say you're going to pull a ditch, why, get out there with a grader and get it done when you said you would. Now, if you promise somebody's daughter old lady G.() 's job, why, when we get in, we fire old lady G() and give her job to the Republican girl we promised it too. The Democrats got us where we are by their lying. And John, things are bad. You know that. But now Democrats are being poked out of their holes. We're going to win this thing by telling the truth on them. They'll lie to you "Pap said that is the difference between us and Democrats. They'll lie to you. We don't. I say that we can put Louie in by just telling it straight. Never lie. . . but I will say this, John, if you do have to lie, why, like Pap always told me, LIE HARD. That way nobody can catch you." - METCALFE POLITICIAN Strategizing during the 1967 Louie B. Nunn (R) vs. Henry Ward (D) Campaign for Governor of Kentucky i, paraphrased. Nunn won, and went on to become one of he greatest Governors Kentucky ever had, carrying Metcalfe County world without end. Eleven-Year-Old sixth grader says, "Some day I will vote on my own" Ive been going to vote with my Mom and Dad since I was about 4 years old. My parents always told me its a privilege to vote and you respect that right. My Dad taught U.S. Government and my Mom is a Political Buff. I think if my Mom wasnt able to vote she would lose her sanity. My Mom says if you dont vote then you dont have a right to complain about who gets into office. Not too long ago, we were voting for the governor of Kentucky and we werent supposed to tell my grandmother and sister who everyone else in the family was voting for. When November came, I went to the polls with my parents and Grandmother Aaron. While we were in the voting booth, I asked my grandmother, Do you really want to vote for Chandler after all you are a Republican? Well she went ahead and voted for Chandler. My Mom and Dad famous words when I go into the voting booth with them are Dont tell anyone who I voted for. The moral of the story is vote how you want and dont let people pressure you to vote any other way. Ive been going into the voting booth since I was about 4 years old and some day I will vote on my own. So when May rolls around, whether youre a Democrat or Republican, get on a bike, 4-wheeler, call a taxi or get in your vehicle and go VOTE. - BLAKE AARON CRITIQUE of GREAT POLITICAL WRITINGOf all the political quips and quotes you've posted in the Election Day countdown, Blake Aaron's thoughts outshine them all. If only a tithe of the electorate and the politicians were as wise and insightful as he.- CYRUS Epic election rascality: A splendid story from Judge Baker about 1840's election Judge Herschel Clay Baker, expressing the collective voice of Old Timers when they spoke of a hot and heavy 1840s era Kentucky House election involving Joshua Bell and Adair Countian George A. Caldwell: Judge Baker laments passingHumbly submitted by your Central Ohio Bureau Chief, Cyrus To review the list of candidates, Click HereQUOTE on TAKING THE FUN out of ELECTIONSAfter new election rules a few years ago put some teeth into clean election laws: Elections aren't any fun any more, since they made vote buying illegal. - ONE-TIME ADAIR CO. POLITICAL LEADER Absentee Voting Machine Open in County Court Clerk's Office
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