The Election Results are In

My town, unsurprisingly, went totally democrat. I say unsurprisingly because the town is full of people who had to move south because the companies they worked for picked up and moved, and they so hate being here that they are doing everything they possibly can to destroy the nice small town this was and turn it into an over crowded, expensive, crime riddled crap hole like the ones they just left. These people are actually viscously fighting to have grocery stores put in... in a town where we literally have seven extremely large grocery stores in a one mile strip of road; not a square mile, a one mile strip. But we need more. 

To be fair, neither side was offering anything different. They were both promising more over development and no improvements to the infrastructure. I literally wrote my dog in for mayor. My mom made me pull over at the polling place I took her to so she could have words with the guy who ended up winning mayor because his campaign called her house 9 times in one hour last night and she was pissed off. When she was done, I shook his hand and told him if he won he would get to know me really well, and if he didn't believe me, drop my name to the current and previous mayors, then duck. A current city council member was there and laughed when he heard that and then came over to say hi. So yeah, it was one of those types of election days and it's that type of town.

So what else happened, because no one cares about my little town. Well, NYC had a chance to take out the garbage, but instead they reelected it. Again, not surprising. They did elect this guy after having Bloomberg in office, so obviously they enjoy grabbing their ankles to government. 

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​Virginia decided that the 2018 election cycle would be best served by telling the democrats that running racist, vile advertisements based on "the white southern guys are trying to kill you with their trucks because you look different" is the way to go because it works. So way to go, Virginia. If you thought the 2016 election was over the top, wait until 2018! I can see race relations are not improving.

I don't know what everyone else's ballots looked like today, but I was disappointed in mine. Far too many people were running unopposed. We have a city council member who was running unopposed who should not be on the city council. This guy regularly gets busted for shoplifting, and it is always in businesses in the town he is supposed to be representing. And it is not a secret. It's always in the newspaper and on the evening news. And they not only keep reelecting him, this time no one ran against him! Pretty much our entire city council was unopposed. 

Folks, I might be asking a lot here, but it might be time for some of us to stand up and run for office. I'm not kidding. I'm not saying to jump into the race for governor or president or anything like that. But maybe we all need to take over our city councils. City councils go largely ignored, but they play heavily in our everyday lives. Maybe after that some folks will move on up in the political scene, maybe some will stay where they are. But it might be time. If we want to "drain the swamp," we might just have to do it ourselves. 

I am honestly considering running for office in the next election. City council. There's a good chance I won't win, but maybe I will. I could get my NJ accent up in there with my libertarian voter registration and see what happens. To be fair, I am getting ready to attempt to go back to school (I am going to try to get into law school, wish me luck), so I'll need to see what the work load is before I run for office. I might have to wait until I graduate to run. But I think now is the time. New faces. A different way of thinking and speaking. Something to offer. Hey, most of us here are just regular people, right? We need some of that in office. We've needed it for a good long time. And you might not win. But we need to start trying.