Always Ask for the Extra “I Voted” Stickers
I went to a local grocery store during my lunch hour today where, out in the parking lot, was one of those portables for early voters to do their duty. And I did mine.
I think I probably left half the ballot blank because it’s a bunch of one-horse races or a race where it’s a Republican versus a libertarian or some other hopeless combination that I neither know nor care about.
But I made sure to lodge my protest in the form of a vote for Kinky Friedman for the Governorship of Texas. I can only hope he outpolls “Grandma” Strayhorn, whose TV ads have driven me to drink. I know Perry is going to win it big, but I hope it’s only a plurality.
I did not vote for Dewhurst. But, for the first time ever, I did vote for Lloyd Doggett to be my Congressman again. I usually don’t like his politics, but the guy is a humper and knows his constituency, whatever the boundaries might be. Good luck to him.
I also made sure to vote for Dana DeBeauvoir. She is Travis County’s County Clerk and I have had a huge crush on her forever. She is also very nice and funny whenever I have had the pleasure of working for her on election nights. That’s something I’d like to get back into one of these days.
As for the bond issues, I voted no on five of the seven or whatever it was. Forget a new library. This town’s plenty wired up as it is. Let the hippies and the homeless go read Plato down at the Goodwill thrift shop and leave the information society to its own devices.
