August 10, 2010

• Election 2010

  Like the rest of the country, we here in Florida are in the middle of an election.  In addition to a host of local races, we’re electing a new governor and a new U.S. Senator.  Two of the candidates are billionaires, and they’re both new to politics in the state.  According to the New York Times, one guy (a Republican) has already spent more than $20 million of his own money on his primary campaign for governor, and, according to the same article, another guy (a Democrat) has spent $7 or $8 million of his personal funds on his primary race for U.S. Senate.  Absentee voting has been going on for about a month, and yesterday they started early voting at polling places around the state for the primary election.  What’s both interesting and annoying is that we are being bombarded by TV campaign ads, and most of the ads are attacks on the opposition candidates.

  I suppose there’s really nothing ironic about all of this.  What is ironic, though, is that one of the candidates for the U.S. Senate has the same rather unusual last name as my son-in-law, my daughter, and my blond-haired, blue-eyed granddaughter, Liza.  Under most circumstances one would think that he’s a distant relative–and he might very well be–except that the candidate for the Senate is African American and my son-in-law and his family are very white.  Go figure.

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