Wednesday, June 07, 2006
And the winner is...
Tuesday was primary elections here in California.
I was a good citizen and voted. Thank goodness for absentee voting, I really couldn't be bothered to try and find my polling place, which according to the Dept of Elections is in a garage two blocks over. My voting was a draw, I was on the winning side of some and the losing side of others. However, we did manage to celebrate at my job today since one of my coworkers is running for office and (gasp!) won his primary!!! Hey, he's in a different party and lives in a different county but I'll cheer and take free lunch like everyone else :-)
After seeing all this civic virtue (and being a little pissed about some of my candidates not winning), I decided to bone up on exactly who my elected officials are. The one office that I thought I didn't need to check were my representative. Everybody knows that if you live in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi is your representative. Er....well if you live in SF except the side of town where I live.
I was starting to sweat, I already lost my gubernatorial and attorney general candidates, now I'm losing my representative too?? With dread I looked at the House website to find out who my true Rep was only to find that I had.....Tom Lantos!!! Tom "Holocaust Survivor/Getting arrested for taking a stand on Sudan/Ranking Dem on International Relations Committee" Santos!!! All I gotta say is you can keep Nancy Pelosi.
I got an upgrade.
I was a good citizen and voted. Thank goodness for absentee voting, I really couldn't be bothered to try and find my polling place, which according to the Dept of Elections is in a garage two blocks over. My voting was a draw, I was on the winning side of some and the losing side of others. However, we did manage to celebrate at my job today since one of my coworkers is running for office and (gasp!) won his primary!!! Hey, he's in a different party and lives in a different county but I'll cheer and take free lunch like everyone else :-)
After seeing all this civic virtue (and being a little pissed about some of my candidates not winning), I decided to bone up on exactly who my elected officials are. The one office that I thought I didn't need to check were my representative. Everybody knows that if you live in San Francisco, Nancy Pelosi is your representative. Er....well if you live in SF except the side of town where I live.
I was starting to sweat, I already lost my gubernatorial and attorney general candidates, now I'm losing my representative too?? With dread I looked at the House website to find out who my true Rep was only to find that I had.....Tom Lantos!!! Tom "Holocaust Survivor/Getting arrested for taking a stand on Sudan/Ranking Dem on International Relations Committee" Santos!!! All I gotta say is you can keep Nancy Pelosi.
I got an upgrade.
