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Juanita has decided that women have now achieved parity with men in the political arena when they feel as comfortable being total jerks as men do.

Sometimes the best way to tell a story is just to tell it.

We had a Democratic County Chair race here last week that became a contest between the vast majority of Democratic activists versus a small cliquish group of middle aged women  who want titles without the bother of responsibility.  Most of those jobs are already taken by member of Congress, but this group was trying their best to get the Gulf Coast franchise.

Fortunately, they lost the election.  I, as a middle aged women who is not afraid of sweating, was delighted.

And, there was a cherry on top of the victory.

My husband, The Bubba, sent out a letter last January supporting the new County Chair, Steve Brown.  Bubba sent it to everyone who had been a delegate to the State Democratic Convention.  That, apparently, included the newly announced Missouri City Mayoral candidate, Cynthia Lenton Gary.

The letter he sent Ms. Gary arrived back at his office, albeit worse for wear, on Friday.

It appears that Ms. Gary made some notes on her copy of Bubba’s letter and put it in her mailbox for someone named Tiffany to pick up.  The postal worker beat Tiffany to the mailbox and Ms. Gary’s letter was returned to sender.

Now, there’s going to be pictures with this story so click on the little one to see them in full life size.

This is the envelope as it arrived back to Bubba.

Bubba thought that was a tad strange.  But, since it clearly said, “Please help me, please,” Bubba thought maybe there was a tiny person trapped in the envelop and he should open it because a tiny person would be very handy to have during political season.

What Bubba found inside truly was a tiny person.  A very tiny person, playing the race card.

On top of his letter, she had written this —

It says, “Precinct 2 – The Black ant – don’t read, don’t know nothing.”  Cynthia Lenton  Gary is African American.  Bubba is not.

In Fort Bend County, Precinct 2 has the largest African American  population of any precinct in the county.  Bubba was endorsing an African American man for the county chair position over an African American woman, in a countywide race that includes all four precincts of the county.  Apparently, at least according to Ms. Gary, white men can’t do that.  Of note is that all three of the African American elected officials in Precinct 2 also endorsed the same man that Bubba did.

Also in the envelope was a wallet sized photo of the incumbent Democratic chair with a note to Tiffany —

I took out the phone number.  It seemed like the decent thing to do.

There are some lessons to be learned here:

1.  Do not put things in your mailbox for your friends to pick up.  It’s illegal.  Plus, it’s not a good hiding place.  Obviously.

2.  If you’re going to run for Mayor, don’t let it be known that you’re anxious to play the race card.  You’ll just look like you weren’t dealt a full deck yourself.

3.  If you’re going to make a fool of yourself, try real hard not to do in front of someone who has a semi-popular blog and a hot xerox machine.

Up until the last Presidential election Ms. Gary was a Republican, which I suspect is where she learned this attitude.

If by chance Ms Gary is reading this, I have only one thing to say to her:  Honey, you can say a lotta bad things about Bubba and Lord knows I’ve said most of them, but you cannot say he’s a racist.  And, just to set the record straight – unlike you, Bubba never, ever voted for George Bush.  I love him for that.

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