I told you about a local Republican we have around here named Rick Forlano.  The last time he ran for office, he got 37% of the vote which gives him the distinction of coming in third in a two man race.

So, he decided that the reason he wasn’t winning is that not enough solid Democrats were voting for him the the Republican primary.  In Texas, you don’t register to vote by party.  You just vote in a party’s primary and you become a member of that party.  You can either vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary, but not both.

You can get lists of which primary people voted in.  So, when you’re running for office in a primary, if you’re smart, you only mail to those people in your party.

First, Rick sends ole Bubba and me a vote by mail application.  Those suckers ain’t cheap.  They run almost $1 a piece.  We got three at our house – and we are all Democrats.  Then, I’ll be damned, we got this on Saturday.

Three.  Count them – three.  We actually got four – we got our neighbor’s by accident – and she’s also a Democrat.

Candidates who want to demonstrate that they are fiscal conservatives would mail just one per household, but they also don’t mail to people who would rather eat an RCA radio than vote in a Republican primary.

Then there’s this —

No, you cannot read the stuff written in white italics at the top.  It could be a Satanic prayer for all I know.

His campaign manager must own a print shop or something, because that man just wasted $5 cash American money and all he’s getting out of it is ridicule.