Posted by Sari
You gotta love the internet. I mean really. Last night at the vice-presidential debate Cheney countered Edward's accusations about Halliburton by asking people to go online to factcheck.com and see for themselves the truth about his relations with his former company. Only, he meant factcheck.org, which is a non-partisan site trying to correct the political spin. Factcheck.com domain, on the other hand, was obviously owned by some HTML-savvy democrat who forwarded the link to here.
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This election sure is much more fun than the Finnish ones. Anything interesting going on in the Communal election campaigns?
Sari
Nothing. The basic problem seems to be that we Finns won't understand our own political and administrative system: Communal elections are by far the most important ones for an average citizen here, since the power of communal councils (is that the word?) is enormous in daily life. Take welfare, taxation, schooling, health care and transportation for example. But since most of the candidates running for the councils are normal people, not politicians or celebrities, nobody's really interested. A shame.
Posted by: Teemu | October 07, 2004 at 13:50
Well, I got a flyer through the letterbox asking me to vote for a little old lady. I will, too, if she can get me a vote...
And Finnish politics is at least better than Irish politics, which is corrupt, badly-dressed *and* boring. Go see one of the most influential politicians in the country:
http://www.kerryweb.ie/destination-kerry/kilgarvan/rae.html
Posted by: fionna | October 07, 2004 at 14:39
Anything interesting in the elections? Well, there's always me :>
Posted by: Mike | October 08, 2004 at 01:15
And we at the Muffins completely support Mike "Mallen" Pohjola's bid for city council. Turku city council needs some bodice ripping...
Seriously, though I find it interesting that this year the candidate lists have contained more familiar names than ever before. Is our "pullamössösukupolvi" actually getting socially and politicaly more active? Or are we just getting to that age when every generation meets the political establishment at some meaningfull/less level?
Posted by: Sari | October 10, 2004 at 17:03