An unSpecial Election
For reasons that few noble minds can grasp, we’re having yet another election. It’s a special, for state senator, since ours was made lieutenant governor. The suspicion is that the governor, who set this election date instead of letting us make our choice when we go back to the polls in November, wanted to see if he could get another Republican vote in the state senate. Who knows?
What we do know is that some jurisdictions in the state are going to be voting more than three times this year and that’s just downright unnecessary. It’s easy to say that we should all be active, even avid, citizens, anxious to cast our ballot, but that’s not true of the majority of the people in this state and in any other in our democratic republic.
The people in our country are lazy, bored, and/or furious over our government and our elections process. They are outraged that whomever they vote for turns out to be a shnook, usually selling their political souls to special interests who fund their re-election campaigns.
In this state senate race, held just two weeks after the statewide primary, we will choose between a current assemblyman who represents part of the senate district, and a former assemblyman who represented another part of the district but was termed out a couple of years ago.
Might they rue the tight deadline and set about educating voters about positions and purpose? Uh, no. Instead voters are being barraged with over-sized flyers from the candidates, their parties, and various organizations trying to get themselves another vote in Sacramento.
Mostly the arguments in these mailers are hot and specious. One presumes the same trash is being aired on television, a medium we no longer suffer in our house.
While I actually like one of the candidates over the other, I’m so disgusted with the endless roll of, um, wallpaper, that I might just write in Theodore Roosevelt’s name instead.
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