[Magdalen] Small-town politics bringing out the worst.

[Grace Cangialosi]

When I saw the subject, I wondered if it was going to be about our local
elections!  My daughter is running for a seat on the county Board of
Supervisors, and I've never seen such nasty politicking as what is going on
here.  Not specifically toward her, but in most of the local races.  She's
been attacked in the past ten days or so, but some of the candidates have
had vicious lies spread; family members have received horrible threatening
letters, and the campaign manager for the man running against the incumbent
sheriff had his business shot into in the middle of the night.

The irony is that my daughter and several of the candidates for other
offices got together and agreed that they would not use those kinds of
tactics, that they would stick to the issues and not smear their opponents.

She will probably be elected, even though she is running against an
incumbent, but I'm very apprehensive about some of the other seats.  I
mean, we even have a convicted felon running for Clerk of the Court, and
nobody seems to mind very much! In fact, since there are four people
running for that office, he stands a good chance of being elected...

We'll all be very glad when Tuesday night comes and this is all over. At
least, I *hope* we'll be glad...

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:45 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> 'Tis the season to be approached by petitioners.  Last week, it was
> ensuring the California minimum wage increases annually.  Not normally a
> signer of such things, I did sign that.  Today, I thought it was the same
> fellow, so I asked what the subject was.  Sale of fireworks; students get
> to sell them for fundraising.  I ask:  "Are you for or against fireworks?"
> "For."  I wanted to scream, "IN A F*****G WILDFIRE DROUGHT?!"  But I
> didn't.  I just said, "I'm honestly neither here nor there on it" (which
> was true, strictly subject-wise).  He goes blank, turns, and walks away.
> If I didn't have laundry in the machine needing the detergent I'd just
> bought, I'd have walked up to him and given him a lecture in interpersonal
> decency.  "When you're responded to, you at the very least acknowledge that
> said response has happened[, asshole]."  (Note brackets.)
>



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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*We must cry out against injustice or by our silence consent to it.
Dorothy Day*