One thing has little to do with the other but they were a day apart so………

PA allows people to “cross file” which means that you file paperwork to run as both Republican and Democrat and are thus on the ballot for both for the primary. I am totally confused as to why this is a good thing. The results came in last night – 3 out of the 4 of us are registered Republicans, yet we won the Democrat primary and I’m clueless about the Republican.

There was a vote a few months ago in my little town about allowing boys in the girls’ locker rooms and about the use of pronouns by kids. The policies addressing these issues were written not by our solicitor but by an independent law firm that is so far right, it’s nearly left. They were both badly written, left too much up to interpretation and too many shades of gray. They were discussed at length for months, it seemed.

It was obvious to anyone watching that 7 out of 9 board members planned to vote for the policies the way they were written. It was a done deal, so move on – wait till you can actually do somehting about it to talk about it. But a few people couldn’t do that, and the night before the vote, they published a post on Facebook that made it look like these policies were going to allow for body searches before a kid could go pee. I demanded that the post be removed – it wasn’t and still hasn’t been. And, of course, it caused an uproar.

So the two who voted agains the policy were held up to public ridicule, even though they explained their reasoning, more than once. Immediately, two write in candidates came forward. They were vehemently opposed to the idea that anyone had voted against these policies and refused to listen to any reasons for why this had been done.

At no time did the two no votes express approval for boys in the girls’ rooms, but that didn’t matter.

I said from the beginning that this was going to be trouble. They’ve been banging this drum for the past couple of months and the people who are running our campaign have done little to counteract it. I finally threw a tantrum and insisted that we put out a statement, and that was done, but it was too little, too late. One of the guys also read a statement at the board meeting but again, no one is listening.

The icing on the cake here is that our local county GOP, without meeting with the four of us, chose to endorse the write ins. The two have never attended meetings, by the way. I called a member of the GOP committee, got no answer. I saw her yesterday and confronted her. She claimed not to have my phone number – ummm, caller ID anyone? At any rate, her sole reason for the endorsement was those policies.

So now we’re looking at who knows what? It’s a cluster fucking shit show!

Maverick

I dropped him off at 7:30 this morning, came home and went back to bed. Dr Dave called at about 11, sent pictures – ewww – and said the lump almost peeled off. He’s sending it for biopsy just to be sure, but he doesn’t seem concerned about any issues. Maverick is now home, sleeping beside me as I type this. I expect he’ll be out of it for the rest of the night, he’s kind of drunk. 🙂 And I can relax with my baby home safe.

He’s home tomorrow and then back to daycare on Friday. He has antibiotics and pain meds, that will be fun. He always gets the diarrhea with antibiotics, and he won’t eat pumpkin or yogurt, so I have anti-diarrhea pills that he’ll get too. And only soft food for a few days so he’ll have some scrambled eggs with his supper, if he feels like eating. He’ll let me know.

He drives me crazy and I love him beyond all reason.