I hope you all did. I didn't posting anything earlier today because I spent the entire day at the polls and in class. My voting precinct is 77 (Delta Towers at 15th and Florida Ave) and I can say that we were (predictably) below the turnout from the September 12th primary. I think we probably finished with around 700-750 votes. I don't know the total number of registered voters for precinct 77, but the turnout seems fairly decent, but the polls never got crowded at all. No lines, or anything. How did voting go for you?
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I vote at Delta Towers. Was anyone else accosted by the woman trying to get you to vote for Fenty and accept Jesus? When I told her I was NOT interested in Jesus as my personal savior she started hurling insults. (I wasn't rude, just said no.) The voting process was fine, but that soured my day.
Deb,
I heard about this, but I didn't witness it. Let me assure that the other Fenty volunteers quickly told the woman that this was unacceptable behavior and sent her home.
I also voted at Delta Towers...at about 7:15am. Everything went smoothly and no lines (wasn't approached by any Fenty people either).
On the primary day, I made the mistake of asking a woman who had a Linda Cropp sign on the back of her wheelchair about the election, and she went on to tell me (1) that running the city is for adults and that Fenty is wet behind the years and (2) everything's gone to hell in a handbasket because of the separation of church and state... "First, we said, take God out of the schools. Look at the schools today..." etc.
I did have an interesting conversation with a person working for Partners for Sacred Places at the Preservation conference last week.
Let's just say she hadn't heard my assertion about inner city churches not wanting to improve their surrounding area because this drives up housing prices, making it more difficult for the church to acquire adjacent properties...
Anyone who asserts that we have taken god and prayer out of the public schools does not have a child in DCPS. While things have improved slightly in the last two years, my kids have been subjected to prayer, exhortations by at least one teacher to 'be washed in the blood of the lamb', endless religious songfests in the guise of concerts, and an annoyingly protestant christian slant on a variety of topics.
And yes, I do register formal objections (downtown DCPS traditionally treats parents who complain of this as rudely as possible).
Taken the prayer out of schools -- I wish!!!! I grew up in NY and these teachers would get fired up there for this behavior.
How did Jesus do in his ANC bid?
No clue, but here's the ad from the Bush v. Jesus campaign
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Behavior like what Tory said scares me. It makes me think that there's no way that I'm ever sending my future kiddos to DC public schools. Any teacher who tries that crud should be immediately fired.
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