A vote for me is a vote for progress

If Barack Obama did it? Peter Milobar did it, so did Terry Lake. Stephen Harper is a master at it. If they can do it, can I?

Well, yes we can.

When he was running for president, Obama made major use of the Internet to support his candidacy and solicit support. Others have done likewise. Today, I do the same.

I am running for Local Columnist in the annual Kamloops Daily News Readers’ Choice election, and I ask for your support. I call it the Mel For Columnist campaign.

I have a three-point platform:

I will not write about my kids, well hardly ever.

I will not bore you, except when I have to try to explain the federal government’s formula for handing out stimulus infrastructure spending.

I will not bring up this subject again, until next year.

Voting is easy. Go online at http://www.kamloopsnews.ca and click on Readers Choice. Read the rules, including the one that says you can vote for me as many times as you like. Also important is that you must fill in 50 per cent of the categories to be eligible. Also important is that you only have until Thursday of this week.

Now, scroll down to category #41 Local Columnist. Enter my name. Now do at least half the others — it doesn’t matter much what you put in those ones, at least not to me.

Submit. That’s how easy it is. Alternatively, you can use the old paper ballot, such as the one published today on page B10. There are some neat prizes, too.

And I thank you kindly for your support.

Mel.