PETERS – Hold your nose and vote, but vote

Posted on October 19, 2019 in Local Voices, Page One, Peters // 0 Comments

IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, all political campaigns tend to return to the same set of talking points.

One of the most commonly used is that this is the most important election of our lifetime.

Rationale for that assertion is rarely given, but it could be true.

And while it could be the most important, we discussed right here a couple of weeks ago that this has been one of the least intelligent election campaigns we have ever seen.

So it would be easy to go into the voting booth on Monday with a darkly cynical attitude.

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James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.

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