chuckers wrote:
> On Aug 31, 5:43 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Take a close look at the voting results and you'll see that no one
>> associated with the entire Post Office debacle is still around.  Koizumi
>> is gone, along with -- I think all -- of those execrable Koizumi
>> children.  Sato Yukari, the "hit bitch" they sent to knock Seiko off in
>> 2005, and failed, was dumped by the voters in her new district, too.
> 
> I am actually in that district. I was actually a bit surprised she 
> didn't make it through on the proportional ballot. Not that I
> *wanted* her to or anything. I was just handicapping the election
> (didn't do so well.) Figured she would have possibly pulled in the
> the Koumei vote as we seem to have a number of Soukagakkai in the
> neighbourhood but no Koumei candidate. Lots of Ohta posters ((now)
> former head of Koumei) that will probably go away real soon.

Where is that district?  I saw Renho a lot in the vids of the victory 
celebration, so I am guessing it's out along the Suginami / Setagaya 
Divide?

I hadn't realized you had a vermin problem out there, what with a lot of 
Soakie Gakkies running loose.  I lived in Ota-ku, close to Ikegami 
Honmonji for a long time and they were anti-Ikeda in ways you could not 
imagine.  There were big signs up saying something like "This a temple 
dedicated to Nichiren, keep the other stuff to yourselves and no one 
gets hurt."  But, every morning when I'd take my walk, there would be SG 
groups posing in front of the place where Nichiren died and where he was 
cremated, and a large priest, or two, standing around to whack anyone 
who tried to break the "no SG" rule.

> The guy that beat her, Tezuka, got a LOT of respect from me because
> he ran on a platform of "NO SENKYO CAR" which meant no loud speaker, 
> unlike Yukari-chan who was going up and down the street even kind of 
> bleeding over the 8 PM cut-off time one night. At least I think it 
> was her car. I almost went to go give chase to the thing and complain
> about election rules violations.

Come out to inaka.  They put extra loudspeakers on the cars so that the 
sound can be heard over the engine noise of the tractors.  When they get 
to a house, the windows and walls facing the road kind of bow in from 
the noise pressure.  We even had stuff falling off the kitchen walls 
when the LDP truck went by.

> Tezuka-san also walked passed my house doing his quiet appeal thing 
> with some supporters in yellow T-shirts. They saw me looking out the 
> window and waved so I waved back. If we hadn't had company, I might 
> have chased him down for a hand shake and ask him his opinion on 
> furriner voting (he is apparently FOR it.) Maybe next time.
> 
>> So, you've got Seiko-chan, Masazoe, maybe Ishihara's older kid (the one
>> that isn't the failed actor or the failed bank clerk).  Just about no
>> one else is well known for any _good_ reason nor credible.  Most of the
>> old guys who are left got reelected in single-seat districts because
>> they do graft and bribery better than the opposition so the locals sent
>> them back.  I don't know if that guy who did all of the verbal blow jobs
>> for Koizumi during his PM years made the final cut last night or not.  I
>> am hoping he didn't.  If he did, I am sure he'll try to run for Party
>> President.
>>
> 
> Do you mean Fukuda or Hosoda?  Pretty sure they both got in.  Or do
> you mean someone else entirely?

I meant Yamashita or Yamada (given name forgotten) ... but he's GONE(!). 
  The TV asshole factor has fallen by one, unless someone wants to hire 
a komente-ta-.

> Suzuki Muneo got back in as did that wench Tanaka Makiko who pulled a
> "let's change parties" manuevre. She probably would have it in any 
> way but being on the winning side will probably mean she will be able
> to hog more air time and shoot her mouth off again. Maybe even land
> another cushy cabinet post.

Suzuki will be gone just as soon as the District Court refuses to 
overturn his bribery conviction and then Debit can run for the empty 
seat.  I always like Moneo-kun because he was the one that left Debit 
cooling his heels in his outer office while he sneaked out the back way 
and went to lunch at a local yakiniku joint.  Debit blogged it as being 
"denied access to his elected representative" not realizing that he just 
didn't bring a large enough box of manju to make a difference in the 
display on his representative's personal radar screen.

As for Makiko, I like her.  She has more balls than nearly all of the 
men in Kokkai.  And, she was very popular with the US State Department. 
  The big problem was Todai assholes who decided to make her look bad 
and a Prime Minister too spineless to back her up when the showdown 
came.  I would be VERY INTERESTED to see what happens when Makiko + 
Ozawa hit the Gaimusho.  Maybe some career ending going on?

-- 
CL