The Best Votes Money Can Buy

Margaret: [both Hawkeye and Margaret are in the Swamp, drunk] This place stinks.
Hawkeye: Right.
Margaret: The food stinks, the liquor stinks, and the smell stinks!
Hawkeye: You said it.
Margaret: And the war stinks!
Hawkeye: It certainly does!
Margaret: What are you agreeing for? You're one of the things around here that stinks!

--M*A*S*H, "In Love and War" (11/1/77)

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I had an interesting email forwarded to me today. Here's an excerpt:

I do not have a problem with Ed [Reisinger] paying people to work the polls, but I think Ed's actions went beyond walk around money.  When I am told by an individual that he voted for Ed because he was afraid if he didn't and Ed lost the precinct by one vote then he could only blame himself for missing out on the $100 precinct win bonus that Ed pays.  That sounds more like a payoff than walk around money.  Not to mention, Ed already paid this person $300 walk around money for the day.

This writer was talking about Lakeland, and named someone specifically elsewhere in the email, but there's word that these shenanigans took place in Westport and possibly Cherry Hill as well; perhaps others. We were also told that people who voted for Ed Reisinger in Morrell Park were given tickets that could be exchanged for a free meal at a local establishment. That one I heard directly from one of the ticket recipients.

I'm going to go the Blatant Comment Whoring (© by Yellojkt) route, and ask what you, dear reader, think about this turn of events. I'd also be curious to know what the folks at the Board of Elections think.

Comments

[wayne]

Part of the Reisinger committee here. I can't believe you don't check more into things or try to be honest with your readers. Again calling names and slinging mud is not a good thing. We all need to work together to make things better. Have you told your readers you moved out of MP. Have you told your readers any of the positive things like Ed Reisinger fought for a foot patrolman which we have, And that when the MPCA was in the hole for over 6000.00 to South Baltimore Learning center Ed set feelings aside and got funding for the program for next year. And that more arrest are being made to help clean up Morrell Park, or that Ed Reisinger had a huge part in getting our Senior Center. Sure things are not always perfect it's not a perfect world but it would be nice to know the positive along with all your negative.