Tuesday, August 26, 2008

A few things to discuss...

Good news, so we are told it looks as if this newest Hurricane Gustav is going to head away from us, we will know more by this Friday. It really is a lucky thing for us because many counties are flooded still, and even tonight we were having mandatory evacuations to our south!

But it's a mixed blessing since it is becoming more powerful and will be up to a category 3 or 4 by the time it hits its designation which now looks like anywhere from Louisiana to Texas!
We all hope it will diminish and fizzle. They don't need this either, pray it goes poof, gone.

We did do our civic-minded diligence today and voted at our district precinct, which we were the 16th and 17th voters of the day, and this was little after ten in the morning.
I asked about the usual turnout for our local district, and I was informed that it was usually a little more than 10%; to me this was shocking.
Our precinct is very small quantitatively in registered voters. I was told there are only 886 registered, but we are a minuscule housing neighborhood where we have a lot of snow birds as winter nesters, and not all that many year round residents. This is still shocking that they were expecting only about 90 voters for the day.

It’s true it was not the BIG major November election, but these little primaries have a lot more to do with our local government, and our daily lives are affected by that.
Today we actually had the candidates running for sheriff on the ballot, and that is a major race locally!
Only problem for us being registered non partisan we are NOT allowed to vote for any candidates.
This is ridiculous in my opinion.
Anyway, we were able to vote on two other important issues, and we did do that.
And I checked with my hubby after, and we voted the same way without discussing it before hand; great, at least this time we didn’t cancel each other out. On occasion we have done that! LOL

Good night to all, and hopefully by now you voted locally if you had an election to vote for today. And remember November 4.2008 it's up to us.

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