Campaigning at Linden today for HWTFM and his ORION teammates, I had one encounter that left me at a total loss as to how to respond.
A woman emerged from the polling place, and made it a point to tell me that she voted against my husband because of "what [I] did to Brenda Fellner." Puzzled, I asked her exactly what that was, as I cast the lone vote NOT to fire her.
She argued that, in the second (post-hearing) vote, I "did too" vote for firing. I suggested that she go back and check the newspaper, because I was the lone dissenter, voting against the motion to terminate.
It occurred to me later that I had the minutes of that meeting in my car, but it was already too late — she’d already voted. It’s kind of like Jerry Kuhaida being thrown off City Council in 1995 because of people’s anger over Parcel A (he’d voted against it), only worse — it wasn’t my husband who cast the vote she took issue with.
I hate feeling like baggage to him.
Angie,
I am sorry that someone said that to you. If it helps I voted FOR your husband. Some people read and believe what they want to, they don’t take all of the facts and “testimony” into consideration. Unfortunately people tend to believe what they want to and dismiss the facts. They also tend to believe people and administration that lies under oath, even when the facts prove the opposite.
You can’t hold people accountable for stupidity because they do not realize they are stupid.
Shake it off. A few people refuse to accept facts.
Who cares what SHE thinks and how SHE may have voted. Her opinion didn’t affect MY decision. I voted FOR Chuck. 🙂
When you have candidates out right lying to the voters at the polls, why would it shock you? Someone on CDAR probably told her Chuck was your husband and that you voted to fire Brenda. That group would have sold their souls to the devil to get what they wanted. I wouldn’t doubt anything. Thank God it turned out the way it did. Two nuts are better than seven.
Tell ’em it is their vote, just like your’s belonged to you and excercise it using good information. Tell you after the fact was,…well just a power play for a reaction.
A bit late, perhaps; however, you have my sympathy for the event. Perhaps that gal had you confused with Richter…