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November 07, 2007
“I Get the Strangest Looks from that Bitchy Crowd”
I live in a town where Republicans outnumber Democrats seven to one. I am a registered Democrat, which is, you know, whatever. I don’t love the Dems wholeheartedly. I’ve voted several times for Green Party candidates, and I also very occasionally vote for a Republican. Yesterday I even voted for a Marxist (mostly because I wanted to lodge my protest against the candidate I knew would win—the Marxist had no chance—but still).
Yesterday my crazy little conservative town voted in the Democratic candidate for Town Supervisor.
Woo hoo!
There were some good reasons for the conservative people of Chili to vote for David Dunning. Our current Supervisor, Tracy Logel, screws up really basic politician stuff, things like acknowledging her constituents and not speaking of them with contempt in public. I have written her several times about issues (a couple of times when she was still on the Monroe County Legislature), and she’s never made any kind of attempt to let me know that she cared at all about what I thought. That’s because she doesn’t care, of course, but I expect my elected officials to at least pretend they care. Besides that, Ms. Logel has some crazy ideas about how Chili should be developed.
As far as I can tell, Future Supervisor Dunning has thoughts a lot more in line with my own about how things should be happening in Chili, little things like not calling people names in public forums. All told, he’s pretty conservative, which is cool. Our Supervisor doesn’t need to bring about world peace. Like most people, I want my town to spend money sensibly and pick up the leaves on the side of the road before the snow falls. I would prefer that some thought went into the town’s growth. I feel optimistic that these things might be part of the new administration, and I just really, really love seeing the voters do something a little wacky. Go democracy!
Posted by adrienne at November 7, 2007 11:46 AM
Comments
It's almost as good as the house dropping on the wicked witch. I'm so happy.
Posted by: tonderdo at November 7, 2007 06:30 PM
BTW, thanks for finding Good Reads... now there is yet ANOTHER thing I'll have to try out! Jeepers. Is it better than librarything?
Posted by: Cathy at November 8, 2007 08:14 AM
Adrienne, I love posts like this. A little slice of local life, with some politics and freedom-of-choice thrown in. Can't believe you voted Marxist, though. Are you a wild thing!
Posted by: Robin Brande at November 8, 2007 08:42 PM