Look at Local Elections in Small Corner of America

Small corner of America’s Holtville City, California releases information about local Council Candidates

2012 Election Candidate Statements

From the Holtville Tribune

Holtville City Council Candidate Bradshaw Issues Statement

Look at Local Elections in Small Corner of America: Holtville City Council candidate David Bradshaw is one of three incumbents, along with council member Colleen Ludwig and Mayor Jerry Brittsan, who will be running against two newcomers, Jim Predmore and Ginger Ward, for three seats available…

Compare that to Russia:

Members of the all-girl punk band “Pussy Riot” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (L), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow on July 20, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band “Pussy Riot” were detained, on charche of hooliganism for barging into a Moscow church and singing a “punk prayer” calling for the ouster of President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2012″. The trio, who face up to seven years in jail, have been held in pre-trial detention since March after the incident in February, and their harsh treatment has become a new rallying cause for the anti-Putin opposition.

AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/GettyImages)