Maybe They Just Meant Marshmallow Peeps
In A2, even our Republicans are hip and with it. Said one GOP member after fellow Republican and city councilmember Marcia Higgins congratulated winning Democrats in the 2002 election, “She can go hang with her peeps (people).” We think the helpful parenthetical notation is the News’, but one can’t be sure.
Maybe they were worried about confusion with those marshmallow bunnies. You know, she can go hang with the Easter confections.
posted by Sara on March 21st, 2004 at 2:35 pmAnd I didn’t read the header until afterwards. Wow, original thoughts are good.
posted by Sara on March 21st, 2004 at 2:37 pmSo according to the news’s helpful translation I should be able to say, “The number of peeps in the world is over six billion”–no–they could better have translated this mystical term as “(pals, one’s crew)” but what do I know.
posted by Laura on March 21st, 2004 at 7:14 pmI like marshmellow peeps!
posted by Anonymous on March 21st, 2004 at 8:14 pmJust to connect the dots, I lost to Marcia Higgins by 79 votes in her first election in 1999.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on March 21st, 2004 at 10:22 pmYou out-of-staters may be interested to know that Michigan has had a long tradition of progressive Repulicanism, going back to the Progressive era and lasting until the 1980s, when Spence Abraham and John ENgler remolded the party into a vehicle to express the resentiment of pissed off rednecks.I applaud Ms. Higgins and wish there were still more Republican like her.
posted by Lucky Jackson on March 22nd, 2004 at 5:35 pmI happen to know a Republican county commissioner who grows pot and protested the war against Iraq. Obviously, I’m not going to give his name, but where he lives there hasn’t been a Dem who won the seat in over 30 years. So, sometimes party labels can be misleading, at least in local politics.
posted by js on March 22nd, 2004 at 6:46 pmjs
Yeah, I know another Republican county commissioner who dropped a lot of acid and converted to Islam, among other many other bizarre things. Well, he’s not a county commissioner any more, but his wife is still a GOP bigwig. Politicians are just as quirky as any other group of folks.
“Over 30 years” for a county commission seat probably means from the beginning. County boards in Michigan were first elected (from single member districts rather than as township supervisors) in 1968. And in outstate Michigan counties, very few Democrats were elected at first.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on March 23rd, 2004 at 12:07 amI was applauding Marcia before I found out she stole the election from Larry. I demand a recount. You know how those sneaky, ballot box stuffing rightwingers are. (She probably dumped her Enron stock early, as a result of insider trading.)
posted by Lucky Jackson on March 23rd, 2004 at 11:36 amGood to know Larry has peeps watching out for him as well.
posted by Nick on March 23rd, 2004 at 12:05 pmNo, no, she won it fair and square, and I did not ask for a recount.
posted by Larry Kestenbaum on March 24th, 2004 at 1:48 pm