Writerbuckeye;864483 wrote:The difference between conservatives and liberals I guess. I really don't want to win at all costs -- and I don't want my candidates or their allies to pull stuff that is unethical..
Funny you say that. I went to Buckeye Boys State with a kid whose parent was (and apparently is) the treasurer for a county near Cleveland. He was the biggest Democrat I had ever met. Not a bleeding liberal, not an environmentalist quack, not a union guy per se....just a fan of the system and his party. So odd.
I don't know if you or anyone else has attended BBS, but the first thing you do is have an election. He personally went around and organized the "cool kids" (including me--of course--and Michigan's starting LG Patrick Omameh) and basically said we should steal the election by offering our opposition some of the best selected positions post-election, he said if we all won he would be able to dictate who received what money and could basically run shit illegally. Pretty shrewd thinking for a 17-year old with (cough) zero political background.
I told him to basically fuck himself and that it was unethical. It turns out we all won anyway, and he again gathered us and said he found a glitch in the BBS banking system's verification, and as our city's treasurer could cash made up checks and launder money--AT BUCKEYE BOY STATE. I convinced my buddies that that idea as asinine and we shouldn't do shit to get in trouble.
Well it turns out that at the end of the week he revealed to us that he had stolen (behind our backs) something like ~$6,000,000 from the BBS state laundering money through their system and that none of them knew where to find it.
I shake my head that this guy has a parent who is actually a county treasurer somewhere. Where do you think he learned that shit?