I got 49 votes and I'm very happy about that: about my, our and all the The Hague votes I won't be in the city council because I needed 1108 votes for that. Five people overall did make city council with personal votes. From my party, GreenLeft, no one did. GreenLeft will be on the council with 2 seats. You can find out everything there is to know about all the votes through the excelfile here: http://denhaag.nl/home/bewoners/to/Definitieve-uitslag-gemeenteraadsverkiezingen-1.htm . -Here I didn't translate about what different amounts of votes for people on our list mean to me.- 49 vote is very decent, looking at all the different votes for people. Every vote shows support, so I'm very grateful for that. I didn't campaign too hard for myself. Except for in some specific instances: with friends and family and in my (mostly informal) little networks. After talking to people I gave them my campaigning postcard. But often I didn't: for instance after I...
It's a chicken and the egg kind of issue. I don't know whether the Christian idea of original sin created propensity to feeling guilty in me, or whether that propensity is a natural state that made the guys behind the bible come up with original sin. I wonder about this after rereading my last blog: This big city life update: bike parking problems . I wonder whether that blog was worthy of using the one time, unique URL http://goo.gl/maps/7tKOM. It's a question I'll have to live with for the rest of my life.
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