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Voters mad when hunky men giving them lift to polls weren't nude
By The Associated Press
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/110204_APsn_notnude.html
(11/02/04 - EUGENE, OR) — Forgive some women for being a tad bit miffed when the hunky men who had offered to drive them to polling stations arrived. After all, the men were fully clothed.
The plan had called for the men of Long Tom Grange -- Oregon's best known nudie calendar -- to offer voters a free limo ride to ballot drop-off sites. The men made headlines last year when they bared all for a calendar benefiting local schools.
Linda Roberts was surprised when 66-year-old rancher John Lopes greeted her in jeans and a cowboy shirt. As Mr. May in the group's 2005 calendar, he wore only his belt and boots astride his horse.
The group had considered going topless.
"But it's too cold," Lopes confessed.
Most Oregon voters mailed in their ballots, though some wanted to go drop them off in person. The men seized on the ballot delivery service as a way both to publicize their second calendar and to promote voter participation.
Despite the lack of nudity, Roberts, 46, a stay-at-home mother of two, was grateful for the group's service Monday afternoon for people like her: "slackers and procrastinators."
"Then I heard that their limo was coming for people and I thought, What a great way to go to the polls. I'd better fill my ballot out!"
By The Associated Press
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/110204_APsn_notnude.html
(11/02/04 - EUGENE, OR) — Forgive some women for being a tad bit miffed when the hunky men who had offered to drive them to polling stations arrived. After all, the men were fully clothed.
The plan had called for the men of Long Tom Grange -- Oregon's best known nudie calendar -- to offer voters a free limo ride to ballot drop-off sites. The men made headlines last year when they bared all for a calendar benefiting local schools.
Linda Roberts was surprised when 66-year-old rancher John Lopes greeted her in jeans and a cowboy shirt. As Mr. May in the group's 2005 calendar, he wore only his belt and boots astride his horse.
The group had considered going topless.
"But it's too cold," Lopes confessed.
Most Oregon voters mailed in their ballots, though some wanted to go drop them off in person. The men seized on the ballot delivery service as a way both to publicize their second calendar and to promote voter participation.
Despite the lack of nudity, Roberts, 46, a stay-at-home mother of two, was grateful for the group's service Monday afternoon for people like her: "slackers and procrastinators."
"Then I heard that their limo was coming for people and I thought, What a great way to go to the polls. I'd better fill my ballot out!"
