Christopher Moore Quotes
Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle with excitement, but I'm sort of in a bad mood tonight, so take this bag and give me the fu**ing paper before I pop your head like a zit. He said, you're a lesbian, aren't you?
Moore, Christopher. Bloodsucking Fiends. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
The New York City comptroller was outraged by the new president of the Board of Alderman, former congressman Fiorello La Guardia, who later became mayor of New York. The two men clashed constantly, especially at meetings of the New York City Board of Estimate, where the comptroller made an unusual request of the chairman:
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Carter beat Kennedy in the Primaries bit lost to Ronald Reagan in the General Election.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
With this type of rhetoric (see Quotation 643709) for another example), he gave the green light to local law enforcement agencies and vigilante groups, who in the first few weeks of his term of office, murdered without trial or any due process 1500 assumed drug dealers and drug users. In some cases feuds and scores were settled by the false accusation of a rival or enemy, and since there was no trial or way for the accused to even try and prove he was not a drug addict of dealer, a number of totally innocent people were victims of extra judicial killings encouraged by the President of the Country.
Christopher Moore is an American writer of comic fantasy. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
