I received spam this morning from a local politician (well, someone trying to become one). Thing is, this person is running for a seat on the New York City council. New York City. My first reaction on looking at the note was: Why am I getting polispam from a Washington, DC politico?. I wasn't, but this person thought the best way to run for an office in, again, New York City, was to include a picture of him in front of the reflecting pool in front of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Washington is not New York, in oh so many ways. Even better, I don't live in the district he's running in (which does appear to be in New York), nor would I support the platform he's running on (hint: Taxes, bad, government, bad, big business, good!).