Post Election Hangover
Okay, okay, okay, dammit. I’m up. I’m up. Quit bellerin’ at me.
I truly am typing in my jammies this morning. I did not have a drop to drink last night, and Lord knows I won’t until in January when Chief Deputy Prissypants leaves office, but I still feel hungover.
There was great news (see below), pretty good news, semi-good news and awful news. As someone wise texted to me last night when mixed news came in, “Every election is a combination of schadenfreude and heartache. Except 2000. That one just flat out sucked.”
When I get my head on straight, I will tell you the awful news that Judge Steven Kirkland, maybe the best judge in Harris County, got beat by a crazy incompetent woman funded by a rich Republican lawyer intent on screwing the system. And then there’s the good news that Lane Lewis beat the shameless lady.
I will tell you about the absolutely worst candidate I have ever dealt with in my entire life, and he claims to be a Democrat. Personally, I think he’s just a giant wad of ego on a stick dipped in sprinkles and then fried, but he says he’s not. However, I have no proof of that, just his word. In the Democratic primary for Congressional District 22, K P George lost to the woman who wants to impeach President Obama. Yes, I said the Democratic primary, where President Obama got 95% of the vote, this guy loses to a woman who wants to impeach Obama. Not in my county, mind you, because I don’t let things like that happen, but K P George went to the other counties in the district and personally nullified all our hard work. It’s a story of ego gone wild.
I was happy to see that some of my other buddies won, too.
I’m gonna take a long shower, brush my hair, maybe, just maybe, get dressed, and come back and write about other things going on in the world.
Nick Lampson won in his race but he will have an uphil battle against Randy Weber if Weber wins the runoff. Weber is heavily funded by David Weekley and Bob Perry.
I emailed the crazy lady who lost the party chair race in Harris County and congratulated her on the well-deserved butt whupping she got. Her garbled response indicated that she was drinking long and hard last night.
1Totally, and thoroughly impressed with how much I DID NOT KNOW…about the candidates I voted for, and against, in the primary….. I set about trying to get more information on Democrats from the Harris County Democratic Party website. Damn…. I can’t even find out who my precinct chair is.
Very seldom have I encountered such a “user unfriendly” website. I know my precinct number…… you would think a simple search…. type in the precinct number somewhere, and it would offer up the info…but…. Nope..it’s in Excel.. which I don’t have…
Anyway, if not for you and “Brains and Eggs” …. what we don’t learn, before we mark the ballot, from just about anywhere else…. is who the heck these people are, if they have any “policies” on anything…. whether they are Progressives or Conservadems, or what, and who funds their campaigns….
Hell, we don’t even know most of the time who’s running, and what for.
The Democratic Party has to do better with communication to voters, and the public in general. IMHO.
Getting a bunch of junk mail…. is just not enough.
2J.J., Please explain what happened in District 22. Is it something in the water?
3Miemaw, I had a similar problem here in Austin, but it included bad websites for the candidates theirownselves, including one dated January that said, “Under construction, please be patient.” During the election, it still said that. I sent them a strongly worded e-mail and said if I didn’t get a response by Wednesday (two-day turnaround) with the candidate’s stand on issues (they also couldn’t be bothered to answer any Texas League of Women Voters questionnaires), I’d assume they didn’t want my vote. I still haven’t heard from them and that was 10 days ago.
4Juanita I found this…… this morning.
http://offthekuff.com/wp/?page_id=42152
hopefully it will be published …… WAY AHEAD of the General.
Anything is better than nothing at all.
5Hi Susan, I’m also in Austin. Now I have to poke around and see what you’re talkin’ about. I was happy last night that not only Lloyd Doggett beat the lady in San Antonio (all of us who campaigned for him couldnt’ even vote for him) but everyone I voted for, won! Wahoo! Well, I think. i think there will be a runoff with Paul Sadler and somebody else. Dang, we need to go around and knock on every door in Travis County and any neighboring counties that will let us. Not sure my feet will hold out that long. Now. If’n y’all cain’t find nobody in your district for whatever, just go on over and donate money to Chris Frandsen “Frandsen for the Future” who is running for Dist 47 for the Texas Legislature. WE NEED MORE DEMS IN THE LEGISLATURE. or at least literate Republicans.
6Though I don’t live in his district, I’m going to work to get Matt Stillwell elected in House District 136 in Williamson County. That seat is winnable…and we can use all the help we can get from our neighbors in Travis County!
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