Alexei Buzu Quotes
The first time I voted, I voted for myself.
He was the youngest elected official of Moldova and one of the youngest elected official in the world. He was 23 at the time of the interview.
Alexei Buzu, Legislator of Criuleni, Moldova Interview, CBS Sunday Morning, November 26, 2006
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Also used in his Message to Congress, May 25, 1967
In the bizarre situation of South African Apartheid, he had obtained a segregated education, become a lawyer, and became a judge and then the chief justice of the neighboring state of Namibia. However, he had never been able to vote.
In Philadelphia, the state delegates had just started to vote for independence. The majority of each state delegation determined the vote for the state. Delaware had three delagates, but only two were in Philadelphia. Rodney, the third delegate from Delaware, had been attending a meeting in Dover when he received word that the other two Delaware delagates Thomas McKean and George Read were split—McKean for and Read against independence. Rodney immediately left for Philadelphia late on July 1. He rode all night in a thunderstorm to traverse the 80 miles to Philadelphia. He arrived in his spurs and riding boots and cast his famous vote and thus Delaware voted for Independence. After the vote, the next 2 days were spent drafting the Declaration of Independence and Rodney signed it on July 4. After Rodney returned to Delaware, he was ousted in the next election by conservative loyalists who felt that Rodney had betrayed them and England.
The infamous breakdown in the Presidential election of 2000 was in large part the result of no rules or training for the election officials. Handley was one of the few officials who publicly admitted that the eligibility of a ballot was dependent on very subjective decisions of many different people.
