Unfortunately, most can’t answer this ‘trivia’ question

Still promoting their legislative scorecard, Conservation Voters of South Carolina have been sending out trivia questions to call attention to the data.

Here’s the most recent:

Final Trivia Question (and maybe the most important)

Who is your Senator and Representative and what is their score?

Don’t forget-there really is a prize.

Good luck,

Yeah… first, that’s not trivia.

Second, if you think people are going to be able to answer it, think again.

Back when we were doing the Power Failure series, I assigned a reporter to go out and ask people who their legislators were. My point was to illustrate what a rotten idea it was to leave in the hands of lawmakers functions that in other states would be handled by a governor. How do you hold someone accountable if you don’t even know who that person is?

Well, the reporter failed in his task even more spectacularly than I had planned. After days of trying, he had not found a single person out on the street who could answer the question.

About that time, I happened to see on a downtown street a car with the bumper sticker, “Do you know who your legislator is?” I took down the license number, we tracked down the driver, and the story became about this one smart woman who knew and cared.

I’m guessing that the ratio between South Carolinians who know which celebrities got their nude photos hacked and South Carolinians who know who their lawmakers are is probably about 10 to one. And yet these are the people passing the laws we live by…

By the way, Project Vote Smart provides a handy way to find out who represents you.

14 thoughts on “Unfortunately, most can’t answer this ‘trivia’ question”

  1. Silence

    I’m glad you brought up the celebrity nude photo situation – otherwise known as “The Fappening” – because I think it’s just fantastic!
    Just a quick poll, which Brad’s blog regulars or irregulars have taken nude selfies?

    2. Doug Ross

      I have not. But I did streak once in 1982. In January. At midnight. In front of a few thousand people. In 20 degree temperature. Google “Cary Quad Nude Olympics”.

      1. Silence

        Well, if you’d done that this year, there’s probably be pics or movies of it on the internet by now, but you are probably safe…

      1. Doug Ross

        Let’s be blunt: I think this committee will just be blowing smoke. It’s ganja take a lot more than a committee to get this done. The death knell for illegal marijuana is sounding: bong! bong! bong! Hopefully they will come to their sensimillas.

      1. Silence

        No, man, I am Dave, man, will you c’mon, open up the door, will you? I got the stuff with me, I think the cops saw me.

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