received my early primary ballot
checked one box
and done.
feels good
heading off to the clerk’s office .
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“not voting is not a protest, it’s a surrender.”
-keith ellison, attorney general, state of minnesota, usa
JFK in an open Studebaker on State Street in Ann Arbor – Oct. 1960
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happy president’s day to one of my favorites
whose words still ring true
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hoping we are relatives somewhere down the line
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“democracy is never a final achievement. it is a call to an untiring effort.”
-john f. kennedy
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credit: photo from the (Bentley Historical Society)
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credit: lisa clair, hamlet hub