* Hat in the Ring: Sprawl Paul

Can an ordinary citizen win an election without spending any money, without accepting any donations, without circulating any posters?  That is the challenge of my candidacy in the age of social media.

PK

SPRAWL PAUL 

The entire campaign consists of forwarding this link.  Please help SHARE THIS BLOG  by copying, pasting, and forwarding the following url to a Hartford voter and to other friends.

http://PKvermonter.blogspot.com

* Note:  Bob Walker suggested "Sprawl Paul" as my campaign slogan, taking a page  from "Spread Fred," the campaign slogan of the late Fred Tuttle

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2009 

Sen. Bernard Sandbag 

interviewed 

by 

Paul Keane 

on 

CATV's 

Talking Turkey

I retired from teaching as of June  19, 2012 so that I could speak my mind on education without offending my bosses.  Here are three of my letters to the editor on such matters.

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I received in my school mailbox this very witty  'fan letter'  from a colleague, the day after my 'Algebra Attack' appeared in The Valley News.

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CORRECTION:

 This is not the first year in 24 graduations as I stated in my letter. This omission of faculty names has apparently been going on for several years, since the departure of our beloved superintendent, Carl Mock. 

Perhaps I only took notice this year since it was my last graduation as a faculty member. 

A completed graduation program, including faculty, staff and support service staff names is mailed to graduates' families over the summer, long after the excitement of the event has faded.

Junior Prom Advisor, 2001 - 2005

Being the Junior Prom Advisor from 2001-2005 was great fun and great anxiety: You could disappoint 125 'brides' every year if you messed up 
the Prom.
 Five years was more than enough!

Nearly a Quarter Century 
and 
more than  
3000 Students

* The Mayor of Camel's Hump, Hartford Native, Albert Meade, 1913 - 1999, raised on a farm, which is now Quechee's "Fat Hat Factory"

Click  on  link below  to be directed to  the tribute to Albert Meade 

(a poem by Paul Keane):

THE MAYOR OF CAMEL'S HUMP

* Mince No Words

CUT THE 
POLITICAL
%RAP

(You know what word I mean; I'm too old-fashioned to spell it out in public, so I'll borrow from comic book spelling : #!!$$&&!!!)

VOTE

INDEPENDENT

Paul Keane

* Not 'Running' for Office, Not Walking, Not Even Budging an Inch

The Un-Campaign

No babies kissed; No money spent; No hands shaked.

Paul Keane

Independent Candidate 


for the 


Vermont House of Representatives

* Respectfully Declining Contributions

The Un-Campaign

Just forward the link: http://PKvermonter.blogspot.com

Offers of donations and even a campaign button-making machine have been made to me since the May 15th article (below) announcing my candidacy as an Independent for the Vermont House. 

I am grateful for these kindnesses, but I must decline.

I am quite sincere in my intention to spend no money whatsoever on this campaign (except for the postage to mail in my petitions to the Elections Commisssion) and to do no campaigning except for the creation of this blog.

If people want to help, the best (and the most inexpensive) thing they can do is send my blog address to friends.  Here it is:

http://PKvermonter.blogspot.com.

Many thanks,

Paul Keane
Independent Candidate
for Vermont House of Representatives

* Aiming Hat Toward the Ring

Paul Keane, Independent Candidate

for the Vermont House

from Hartford

I subscribe to the Fred Tuttle Plan.  I’m too old, at  age 67, to waste my time saying what people want me to say in order to be popular or get elected to political office. 


I will kiss no babies and I will spend not a plug nickel on campaigning.

The late Fred Tuttle, The Man with a Plan

If you want a representative who speaks his cantankerous mind, then I’m that guy.  


If you don’t, then vote for somebody else. 

Paul Keane, the skunk at the picnic

On Gay Marriage:

Vermonters have always done the right thing. I’m sure they will conclude sooner or later that it is unfair to deny any particular group the opportunity to make divorce lawyers  even richer than they already are.

On Closing Vermont Yankee Nuclear Reactor:

A meltdown at Vermont Yankee, according to anti-nuclear expert Dr. Helen Caldicott, M.D., would contaminate beyond human occupation for decades, the 100 miles from Vermont Yankee, up the border of Vermont and New Hampshire to White River Junction, and beyond, including all of Dartmouth College.

Even Yale or Princeton could not have devised a more demonic strategy for removing Dartmouth  from the Ivy League.

PS: Let’s not forget also the hundred miles of permanently contaminated Vermont and New Hampshire homes and farms no longer able to be occupied by ordinary citizens.  (And of course, the hundred miles down the flatlands in the opposite direction.)

On Universal Health Care:

Imagine a society which feeds its children processed food, plops them down as inert blobs in front of digital devices both at school and home for hours every day, and expects pills (rather than exercise and natural foods),  to minimize the resulting epidemics of childhood obesity and Diabetes II. Then, imagine providing insurance to pay for treating these epidemics.  Smart, huh?

On the Internet:

Put into the hands of every citizen, and most American teenagers, a device which can instantaneously connect them to pornography and gambling parlors. Then, pretend that such exposure does no harm, either to adults or children.

On  American Dependence on Oil:

We can set, and achieve, a ten-year goal of manned space travel to the moon in the 1960’s, but we cannot invent an affordable alternative to gasoline and oil-driven machines in the eleven years since the 2001 World Trade Center attacks ?  Sounds fishy to me.

* Letters to the Editor

   

Ralph W. Lehman

Dr. Jim Kim, M.D.

Robert J. Lurtsema

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The Letter Writer