Here’s The Scoop…Small World
September 17, 2008 by Barbara
VOTING…. BY GENDER AND NAME…
In a previous post…this writer wrote of meeting a gentleman at dinner one night after going to vote at Jarvis Hall in the recent election….he and his girlfriend sat at the Benihana table with the BCbythesea hubby and myself….
He spoke of starting the Jaablog…and I admit as I did in that post….. I was skeptical…being an avid …longtime reader of the blog….but after a Google…which he suggested I do…. upon my arrival home……I found out it was true….who would have thunk it?….
He asked me how I voted for the judges that day…and I had to admit…by gender …women…and name…Jewish…(BCbythesea is Jewish)….because I was not up on all the candidates for judges…sorry to say…
He then went on to tell us of a woman judge who changed her name to make it sound more Jewish than the Jewish last name she used up to this point in time to practice law………especially for this ballot…especially in this race…especially for this reason….
I told him I think I voted for her….especially ….because of her gender and her name….we laughed…
Low and behold…some days later….it came to be the woman in question…was questioned on doing just that…using a different name than her Law license showed…. a series of Jaablog posts followed ….as the case moved forward from the initial challenge by one of her opponents…..
Resulting in the decision handed down today….she is off the ballot…no matter what name she used …..her opponent is on….a man….
SMALL WORLD!….
