Message from John engle...

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HE called me on the phone around noon and he said he won't be posting at the forum any more because his internet doesn't work anymore but he asked to to ask you guys if I can vote for him over the weekend.

Was that all one sentence?  Anyway please let the poor soul vote.

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By vote for him, I mean, can I cast my vote for him, like he asked me to.

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We are on vacation this week, Feb 21-25.  President's week.

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Boss:  If you could record the conversation with John actually saying who he casts his ballot for, that will be an acceptable vote.  I will not accept John's vote unless it is really coming from John himself.

I think I can dig that up.  Give me your number and I'll ring you and play it for you.

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I did commit voter fraud here.  John Engle did not actually call me.  It made little difference on the outcome, however.

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In retrospect, not to be a Monday Morning Quarterback, I can't believe everyone unconditionally respected a recording that we had no way of verifying the authenticity of.  That struck me as a weird decision at the time, too.

If it was for one of the major candidates, it wouldn't have gone through.  But it was for John Engle, who everybody loves, and nobody would deny him a vote.