Exercise your voting rights, O Gentle Ones... "Use 'em or lose 'em!"
Unless you're an
Ogden City resident who's been living under a rock, you're
"wise" to the fact that
Ogden City Municipal Election Day rolled around just a few minutes ago, coincidentally with the final down-tick of our
"snazzy" right sidebar election count-down clock. Yep, the polls opened at 7:00 a.m. this morning, and will remain in business until 8:00 this evening at all
Ogden City voter precinct polling places.
Here's hoping you'll all make it over to your local polling location to cast your ever-important votes. Although the
"killjoys" of the Ogden City Administration have summarily removed some of the excitement from the faithful exercise of you
"civic duty," by enforcing those
nit-picky Utah campaign financial disclosure rules, and thus
disqualifying two candidates from two of the four prevously
"contested" races, we still have four fine candidates running in two still-fiercely contested races, namely, second-time candidate
Stephen D. Thompson and first-timer
Marcia L. White in the At Large "A" contest, along with two-term council incumbent
Doug Stephens and challenger
Turner C. Bitton, who are fighting it out
tooth and nail in the council Ward 3 race.
And try to look at it philosophically,
Ogden City lumpencitizens. Unlike some some other
Utah folks in some other
Utah communities who
won't have the opportunity at all to choose their own municipal elected officials for the 2014-16 term this morning, you at least have some choice in the matter, however pared-down those choices may be.
Oh yes. As an added bonus, we'll incorporate this image of the flyer we received just this morning by mail, from the
Northern Wasatch Association of Realtors, (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
"Biggest and Baddest PAC in the Land"), which donated the usual 1500 bucks to candidates
Bart Blair,
Neil Garner,
Doug Stephens and
Marcia White, just to give you a little something extra to think about as you enter the voting booth today, and to add to the overall
mirth and merriment of your voting experience
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This verbiage reads like a press release straight out of
de facto Mayor Mark Johnson's Economic Development Department,
dunnit?
Still unsure about the location of your
Ogden polling place, despite our placement of a link above (which you probably neglected to
"click")? Let that be no obstacle to the exercise of your civic responsibilities, as you can
almost effortlessly obtain the location of your designated polling place (among other tidbits of important information) right here:
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Exercise your voting rights,
O Gentle Ones.
"Use it or lose it," as the old saying goes.
The polls are now open, people! Get on down and...
VOTE!
Added Bonus: We've also set up a separate thread for later this evening, by the way, (we've pre-set it to automatically post @ 7:30 p.m.), with a link to the Ogden City Recorder's Office
"boffo" live online vote tally software, so you can follow tonight's vote count in real-time. Therefore, be sure to check back here later.
And in the meantime... the floor is open for your intra-day election related comments.
