We didn't spend a lot of time on the Fresno City Council races tonight, and it looks like that was the right allocation of scarce (personnel) resources. All three races were over before they really got started, it seems.
In District 2, Andreas Borgeas is leading Michael Karbassi by 67% to 33%, with 48% of the votes counted.
It's a little closer in District 4, but incumbent Larry Westerlund -- who's watching returns from South Carolina as he prepares for his deployment overseas with the Navy -- is leading Susan Good by 60% to 40%, with two-thirds of the votes in.
And Lee Brand is running away with the race in District 6. He's got 70% of the vote, to Michelle Jorgenson's 27% and Matt White's 3%. That's with 44% of the votes counted.
Those earthquakes around the world are being caused by America's revolutionairies of yore are turning over in their graves. The partly democratic, partly parliamentarian process of electing our representatives and lawmakers has been turned into an auction house for political office.
On the local front...I heard that the winner, of the council seat for District 4, will be deployed to Germany. So now we shall have to find out who that appointed person is to whom representing our interests
has been relegated.
Auf Wiedersehen from District 4.
I feel a little sorry for Susan Good. I thought she was the better candidate, but even if you disagree, I think you should agree she deserved a better chance than this. The last few weeks of the Westerlund campaign basically amounted to "Daddy went off to war - how could you even think of voting against him!" Good tried to make it an issues-oriented race, but had no chance.
Mike D. 6.4.08 characterized Westerlund's campaign: "Daddy went off to war-how could you even think of voting against him!"
But even Susan Good's campaign tiptoed around the issue.
Had America's forefathers tiptoed around on egg shells, we might today sing "...God Save the Queen!..."
Cause and effect! History does not happen in a vacuum. Being polite and respectful in politics is entirely different to being disingenuous. Like the little ole Greek of yore, I am aiming my lantern into nooks and crannies, trying to find a candid politician.
Yes, Good tiptoed around the "issue." What else could she do? And I know whereof I speak, having received the flyers with his family asking us to pray for him as he goes off to serve the country. Not very subtle.