I can deal with a baby shower in the break room at lunch, but I can’t deal with being asked to contribute to it. If I don’t, I’m basically saying “I hate your baby!” (which I don’t – I just don’t want to dip into the 42″ LCD TV fund to welcome it – you have your baby, I have mine). Now, imagine that the baby is Bill Richardson and instead of wanting onesies for the end of his birth canal cruise, he wants you to go to Iowa. On your own time and on your own dollar. Over the holidays.
Richardson has asked some New Mexico state employees to volunteer to campaign for him in Iowa before the January 3rd caucuses. But, they have to use vacation time to do it and pay their own way.However, the Richardson campaign will help set up a carpool – A Carpool of Democracy! (Because it’s a good idea to put desert drivers who can’t drive in the rain on icy roads in the snow.)
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Richardson is also asking New Mexico government appointees – people who owe their jobs to him (and could swing a federal appointment if their governor is elected President) – to campaign in Iowa.
Your boss asks you to volunteer for something? A co-worker of mine has a word for that special kind of volunteering – he calls it being “voluntold”.
Bill, if you want people to join your Carpool of Democracy, maybe you should do something a little extra to prove that you’re worth dipping into the 42″ LCD TV fund. Perhaps responding to the Geek Survey?
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Another Season of 26″ Screens: 1 Geeks: 0
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
