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RECALLS

Like the entire state of California, the entire township of Shiga is having a recall vote soon, only in this case it's not a governor, but a mayor, and there is no "mayonator" in the running. Lucky us. Our mayoral recall vote, coming up on August 31, is getting a bit of national news, we find leaflets in our mailboxes, recaller vans are cruising the streets with their speakers playing folk songs and "natural" type music, as opposed to the thought-suppressing ad-jingle type that usually accompanies the white gloves and warblers, in this case encouraging voters to clear their minds, get out there and unvote for the guy they voted for who shafted them but good, the mayor on tv as blandly affable as any shell-game operator, defending his policy (do as you're told) with three microphones as though he himself is a natural guy and not an LDP apparatchik who did his time on the ladder...