Political messages while trick or treating?

[Cindy B]

I'm not known to start political threads, but something happened last night, and I was wondering about it.

I vote at my kids elementary school, which is the street we were trick or treating on.

I got a couple parents (actually more than a few) remind me to vote on Tuesday as I stood there with my daughter.

It personally didn't bother me, but was wondering if anyone else got that.

 

[Beth76]

That would bother me. Why can't they just keep politics out of a fun children's holiday? AND, I would find it insulting.

 

[swilphil]

That wouldn't bother me as long as they weren't telling me who to vote for. Four years ago when a kid came to my door for candy, the accompanying parent handed me a card to vote for a certain candidate. That's going too far.

 

[Microcell]

I would have been annoyed! I am about to turn off Nick because of the Nag the Vote thing. I told DD not to breathe a word about that to me. I am an adult who can vote if I choose or not.

 

[klmklm]

I remember as a child on Halloween hearing other children chanting as they went from door to door:

Trick or Treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat

and

Nixon, Nixon, he's our man
If he can't do it, nobody can

 

[grlpwrd]

My dd's actually got an advertisement attached to their candy for a karate school and a couple of Just Say No to Drugs goodies.

I don't know about the ad... it's so inappropriate.

 

[browneyes]

We had a Halloween on the Square on Saturday night. We line in and walk around and area merchants hand out candy and coloring books and just have fun with the kids. I was handed a "Vote for ___ for City Court Clerk" card while we in line. I'm about as unpolitical as they come (I've asked my kids to remind me to try to go vote tomorrow, I know I'll forget). I just kinda laughed and put the card in my dd's candy bucket.

 

[CarolA]

Why not?

There appears to be a whole group on this board who have gotten politics at chuch. Limits don't appear to exist anymore.

I just look at these people and go "If you harass me I PROMISE to vote the other way" LOL

 

[jerrysboy40]

My son got a little Jehova Whitness book on how to be saved. I didn't think they believed in Halloween.

Anyway, we have a parade in our town. There were several people pulling their kids in wagons with political signs. It is their choice to do that, but I thought it was stupid.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Well, as I put out one of my scarecrows last night (the one I hold for the night itself--it's pretty beat up but I put a "jason" mask on it and it looks scary in the dark) I noticed what a loooong face it had, so I put a sign on it that said "I look like John Kerry".
Not an endorsement either way, just noting the similarity of the looonng face.
Only got one complaint--an 8th grader from another town who was with a bunch of our 8th graders (he is one girl's boyfriend, which is another issue, why would an 8th grader have a boyfriend encouraged by parents, but I digress). He said "don't you like John Kerry?" I said "No" (why lie?) and he said "(tsk tsk noise) Kerry is the best." Unfortunately for him, the girls with him said"shut up, he is not!"
Most of the parents got a giggle out of it and a lot of small children ran off saying "vote Bush!" It was fun.
Robin M.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

No one said that to us.

We just got "cool pumpkins" when they came to our house.