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First Klingon elected to office in the USA (Anti-fracking platform)
[font size=1 color=red]GETTIN' WHIGGY WITH IT[/font]
4:07 pm November 8, 2013
Election 2013 Loose Ends: America Elects A Whig And A Klingon
WONKETTE
by Doktor Zoom
[font size=1]{It sounds better in the original Klingon}[/font]
Big news, everyone! American political diversity expanded considerably with Tuesday’s elections. In Ulysses, New York, voters elected to their town board actor J.G. Hertzler, a human who is best know to fans of the Star Tracks: Deep Space Nine television program as “Chancellor Martok.”
Martok, of course, helped lead Klingon forces in the Dominion War (not including that unfortunate period where he was temporarily replaced by a Changeling, duh), and eventually became leader of the entire Klingon Empire. We can’t say with any certainty that Hertzler is the first Klingon elected to office in the USA, but he is definitely the highest-ranking.
A former employee of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Nixon administration, Hertzler was elected on a platform that strongly opposed hydraulic fracturing as an environmental threat. Our respect for the integrity of science fiction franchises prevents us from making a Battlestar Galactica/”fracking” joke here. Qapla’! Board Member Hertzler.
And in Philadelphia, voters have elected Robert “Heshy” Bucholz, a member of the Modern Whig Party, to the office of election judge in the Rhawnhurst section of the city. Buchholz won against a Democratic opponent by a lopsided 36 to 24-vote majority, giving him a mandate to get all Whiggish in doing whatever it is that the office entails.
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4:07 pm November 8, 2013
Election 2013 Loose Ends: America Elects A Whig And A Klingon
WONKETTE
by Doktor Zoom
[font size=1]{It sounds better in the original Klingon}[/font]
Big news, everyone! American political diversity expanded considerably with Tuesday’s elections. In Ulysses, New York, voters elected to their town board actor J.G. Hertzler, a human who is best know to fans of the Star Tracks: Deep Space Nine television program as “Chancellor Martok.”
Martok, of course, helped lead Klingon forces in the Dominion War (not including that unfortunate period where he was temporarily replaced by a Changeling, duh), and eventually became leader of the entire Klingon Empire. We can’t say with any certainty that Hertzler is the first Klingon elected to office in the USA, but he is definitely the highest-ranking.
A former employee of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Nixon administration, Hertzler was elected on a platform that strongly opposed hydraulic fracturing as an environmental threat. Our respect for the integrity of science fiction franchises prevents us from making a Battlestar Galactica/”fracking” joke here. Qapla’! Board Member Hertzler.
And in Philadelphia, voters have elected Robert “Heshy” Bucholz, a member of the Modern Whig Party, to the office of election judge in the Rhawnhurst section of the city. Buchholz won against a Democratic opponent by a lopsided 36 to 24-vote majority, giving him a mandate to get all Whiggish in doing whatever it is that the office entails.
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- If he brings his Batleth to the fracking meetings, I'll bet there won't be no fracking in his town......
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- Personally I think the whole family's vapid, plastic and nothing but hyperbole-personified, but a woman's entitled in these times to use whatever the hell works for her. So who am I to judge?
-Laelth
Dache'taHvIS targh QeH toDuj!
Iw HIq Hoch: 
