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Baking Until I Drop

Election Fever has hit Trinidad and Tobago.

We’re due at the polls on November 5th.

Now comes the election dilemma…of course most people don’t suffer from these problems. They just vote party…or race…or don’t vote!

I really do wish electing our Prime Minister was separate from electing our constituent. So say I preferred the UNCA candidate to run my constituency (haha!) then I could vote for him but if I wanted a different Prime Minister say the PN…okay! I can’t say that. Oh no! But you get it?

Anywayz, mom made reference to my problem in a previous post of mine.

What do you do when you’re supporting one party and you believe you need to do everything in your power to get them to win (i.e. vote for the candidate for your constituency come election day)…yet…yet…you don’t like the candidate.

Actually, I don’t know if we like the candidate.
It’s been said that he’s made anti-muslim comments…he’s arrogant…he’s a bad apple in the party (by others…I don’t know if the party says this).

There was a cottage meeting and my dad asked the candidate about the statements. He said nooo he never said that. Those were part of the allegations against him etc etc. His wife is muslim. Hmmm. Of course one of my mom’s friends said she heard it on the radio (other party, other party radio station).

What to do!
Voting is the only way to make a difference.
Well prayer too.
We don’t seem to have any other way for the voice of the people to be heard. Once our representatives are elected they do not listen to us and we can’t seem to do any vote of no confidence or make them do what we the people want.

*sigh*

On that note, I leave you with a picture of take out food. How is it relevant? Well there was some ‘Id-ul-Fitr luncheon that somebody was invited to which was a forum for one party to speak (no! i wasn’t invited). But somebody gave us take-away boxes…mom and I had been shopping that morning and out all day…we were so hungry…it tasted great :-)