MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Hey, if you're going to spend all day playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games, that's your business.
But if you're running for State Senate District 25 in Maine, maybe you shouldn't spend all your time in the imaginary world of Azeroth.
On the bright side, Colleen Lachowicz is playing at level 85, the very highest level of play. That shows initiative and commitment. On the downside, she's had to spend a lot of time to get there and has left a record of rather unserious comments while doing so.
The Maine GOP highlighted some of the comments Lachowicz, whose online alter ego is Santiaga, has made during the many hours of playing time she's logged:
- "Yes, I am seriously slacking off at work today. And I called my congresswoman's office today. And told them I would probably be calling everyday."
- "I spent my day leveling my alt -- an undead warlock..."
- "I'm lazy, remember?"
- "Now if you'll excuse me, I may have to go and hunt down Grover Norquist and drown him in my bath tub."
- "Or my dream from election season last year where John McCain sat at my childhood dining room table and I reamed him a new [expletive] about Sarah Palin."
- "I like to stab things and I'm originally from NJ.... what's your [expletive] point?!"
- "Do not send me a campaign contribution or I will have to stab you! Seriously!"
- "I love this diary because it sums up the [expletive for tea partiers] mindset."
You know those pictures where they show all the state legislators playing Solitaire instead of paying attention to debate? Maybe we should just encourage them all to adopt alter egos and fight things out in Azerath.
And hey, if things go well for her in Maine and she moves up to a national platform, maybe she can teach us how Chinese gold farming will save us from currency devaluation. Santiaga for Chief Orc Assassin!
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Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
I like Colleen's defense of herself over at Huffpo:
This is the most bizarre political candidate since Alvin Greene.
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
The Maine GOP put up this hilarious website documenting the candidate's weirdness here:
colleensworld.com
The tagline: Colleen Lachowicz is a Democrat candidate for Maine State Senate. In Colleen’s online fantasy world, she gets away with crude, vicious and violent comments like the ones below. Maine needs a State Senator that lives in the real world, not in Colleen’s fantasy world.
Mar '11
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
As of last week, the maximum level is 90, and yes, as a matter of fact, I do need a life.
Apr '11
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Even in a fake world she picks the bad guys and joins their side...
Jun '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Perhaps we should encourage liberals to inhabit an alternative world. If they live in another world maybe they won't try to remodel the real one.
Jul '11
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
I'm friends with the guy who used to own Blizzard(as in World Of Warcrack). He believes Obama is a fool, as do all thinking people. Take that you liberal gold stealing troll.
I stopped at Xbox.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
I suppose now I'm disqualified from political office myself (as well as Percival).
By the way, my friend informed me that based on information from her public character listing, she hasn't played World of Warcraft in a couple years.
This is a big, awkward, old-fogey moment for the Maine GOP, I'm sorry to say.
Darn those kids with their Walkmans and their rocks and rolls.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
I am a gamer, and I am offended here. Are we saying that because someone has a level 85 character that they are not fit for office?
Would we say that about a Fantasy Football team?
I cannot type how offended I am to see you mock people for spending free time in something so harmless.
How is this: I Hope she wins, and if she were in Ga, I would consider voting for her over the GOP guy since clearly, he has it in for people like me that like online gaming.
Way to go GOP!
Edited on October 5, 2012 at 2:10amJul '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Pfft, Guild Wars 2 is where the action's at right now.
Apr '11
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
yah if you want your account hacked, by some dued who can't get a date in China.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
I am sitting her looking at an Eve Online Add in the upper righthand corner.
My best friend works in the industry, and I myself, worked on one of these projects that you think should bar people from public office.
Are there any other hobbies that you think classify as too weird for public service?
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Bryan G. Stephens: I am a gamer, and I am offended here. Are we saying that because someone has a level 85 character that they are not fit for office?
Would we say that about a Fantasy Football team?
I cannot type how offended I am to see you mock people for spending free time in something so harmless.
How is this: I Hope she wins, and if she were in Ga, I would consider voting for her over the GOP guy since clearly, he has it in for people like me that like online gaming.
Way to go GOP! · 6 minutes ago
I actually love how seriously gamers take their MMORP. I made the mistake of razzing a friend about his lack of sleep due to online games and -- either because he was sleep deprived or otherwise -- he let me have it!
FWIW, I think that the Maine GOP was poking fun of her online comments rather than MMORPs in general.
But I'm not the Maine GOP.
May '10
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Bryan G. Stephens: I am a gamer, and I am offended here. Are we saying that because someone has a level 85 character that they are not fit for office?
Would we say that about a Fantasy Football team?
I cannot type how offended I am to see you mock people for spending free time in something so harmless.
How is this: I Hope she wins, and if she were in Ga, I would consider voting for her over the GOP guy since clearly, he has it in for people like me that like online gaming.
Way to go GOP! · 6 minutes ago
I actually love how seriously gamers take their MMORP. I made the mistake of razzing a friend about his lack of sleep due to online games and -- either because he was sleep deprived or otherwise -- he let me have it!
FWIW, I think that the Maine GOP was poking fun of her online comments rather than MMORPs in general.
But I'm not the Maine GOP. · 0 minutes ago
If everything someone said as a football game were written down, would the speaker be happy about it?
Get the nerd, right?
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Bryan G. Stephens: I am a gamer, and I am offended here. Are we saying that because someone has a level 85 character that they are not fit for office?
Would we say that about a Fantasy Football team?
Do you ever watch The League? Pretty sure those guys aren't fit for public service.
Actually, since I am beginning to prefer an open lottery system to filling elected positions, I think a healthy mix of gamers, solitaire players, fantasy football afficionados ( dare I say Ricochet addicts?) and the rest would be great.
This *particular* gamer doesn't seem to be very mature, however.
Jul '10
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Valiuth
yah if you want your account hacked, by some dued who can't get a date in China. · 5 minutes ago
That explains all the guys who keep yelling "Ni hao" at me.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
Bryan G. Stephens: I am a gamer, and I am offended here. Are we saying that because someone has a level 85 character that they are not fit for office?
Would we say that about a Fantasy Football team?
Do you ever watch The League? Pretty sure those guys aren't fit for public service.
Actually, since I am beginning to prefer an open lottery system to filling elected positions, I think a healthy mix of gamers, solitaire players, fantasy football afficionados ( dare I say Ricochet addicts?) and the rest would be great.
This *particular* gamer doesn't seem to be very mature, however. · 0 minutes ago
That attack appears to me to be because she plays WOW not because she is immature player. The whole thrust is she is immature because she plays WOW.
I like WOW. I like Star Wars Online. I love to run pen and paper role playing games like D&D. I am a nerd. Here the GOP appears to be going after someone for being a nerd.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Diane Ellis, Ed.: I like Colleen's defense of herself over at Huffpo:
This is the most bizarre political candidate since Alvin Greene. · 43 minutes ago
I pretty much agree with her defense. But hey, I am "bizarre" too.
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Mark Wilson:
Darn those kids with their Walkmans and their rocks and rolls. · 15 minutes ago
I love this line. I'm stealing it.
May '11
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
The party of fuddy-duddies. I echo everything Bryan said.
May '10
Re: MMORP Vs. GOP: Orc Assassination Rogue For State Senate
Thanks. Nice not to be alone.