I live upstate about an hour and a half away and in my town my father held a political office for over eight years. Unfortunately when he was up for re-election the following term he was defeated. However he is up for election again this November and my entire family has been devoted to getting him re-elected. I don’t know if anyone is familiar with political terms but he lost due to a block vote.
Where I live the town is extremely divided. There are the people that live there all year round and than there’s the people that are only there for the summer months. The people that are there during the summer are Orthodox Jews. This causes a huge problem for the people in the town. When summer comes traffic increases, along with garbage there are more accidents and they also build more. This would normally be a good thing but considering they are taxed exempted the taxes for the other year round residents dramatically increased to the point that working families can barely afford it.
There is no problem with them coming upstate during the summer it’s the problem of the unbalance ness of the town. The year round residents don’t feel that they get the same privileges that that particular group gets. They are allowed to vote, buy and build on tax exempt land, and the like. This causes the summer months to have a lot of tension in the air.
I personally don’t have a problem with this group. However I don’t felt that they should get all of the advantages that they do.
But getting back to the election my family is working hard to get him elected again so that he can help bring these problems to a close. Although this election we are possibly facing another block vote we are going to continue our hard work and hopefully it will pay off.
During that rough time in my town Buddhism would help greatly. The teaching would unite all the residents and the summer visitors to one understanding. As of right now my town is cold (dead) and something needs to change. Hopefully with this election coming up and new people being elected (rebirth) it will unite the town and make the residents and the summer residents see eye to eye on some of the disagreements they’ve been having (reincarnation). Maybe Buddhism is what we need!
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Well the good news is you are participating in the political process. Living through two political campaigns will certainly test your patients. A block vote is very difficult to overcome. Good Luck
This is not fair to the year round residents and I hope your father gets re-elected to maybe fix this problem , yes it is unfare it is usually the good ones that suffer for instance you can work an honest job and go to school and just get by living and struggling but if your an illegal alien you dont pay taxes get free medical care free education and free just about everything thats not fair either but I am sure you know that from living a political lifestyle , had this affected you personaly in anyway ?
And do you plan to get into politics fulltime after college?
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