For whatever odd reason, Virginia has state officer elections the year after the Presidential cycle. So I get to vote tomorrow. I don't think I've voted at a booth since...I'm not sure when. I know it would have been at the pink firehouse in Manistee (I know it's red in that photo, but it used to be this color)...I think during the 1996 Presidential primary. But the question then is why would I have been home from Hope? Winter or Spring break, maybe.
Anyway, since I never got around to voting in Chicago, all my balloting has been absentee since then. Tomorrow I get to walk to the elementary school across the road and stand in line. Should be fun. At least the annoying advertising will end--Republican Jerry Kilgore is trying to paint Democrat Tim Kaine as inhuman or something, when it's Kilgore who was used a grieving widow to call Kaine "soft on the death penalty, as Kaine opposes it on the basis of his Catholic faith. The spot actually has a policeman's widow on the verge of tears, upset that Kaine would be against executing her husband's murderer. (I mean, I'm sympathetic, but this is part of the reason the laws are left to representatives duly elected by the body politic, and not by people necessarily running on emotion.) At any rate, I found it to be a cheap, pandering, disgusting ploy by Kilgore--and while I certainly would have agreed with the Democrat on most issues most of the time, had the roles been flip-flopped I could not have voted for Kaine. I was that turned off by the ad.
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Although you never voted in Chicago, please be aware that we had several others vote in your name. Thank you.
Mayor Daley
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