good evening friends


After thirty four years as a registered independent, i stopped at the county election office today and registered as a republican. Over the years I have voted for the best person for the job regardless of party affiliation. I have never voted against my better judgment just because of the political ideology of the candidate. as an independent voter, i have never been allowed a vote in the partisan primaries.

The democratic candidate for governor has no chance of winning. Our next governor will be one of the three republicans currently running in a close primary election to be decided in a couple of weeks.

Our current governor was the lieutenant governor when mr. bush made mike johanns secretary of agriculture. Since then he has done a fine job.

Second on the list is a local business man. He is running third in the polls and is having some difficulty getting his message out.

The man with the best chance of winning right now is our third district congressman. He won his two house terms in landslide elections due to coaching our college football team to three national championships.

Our primary election is may ninth. While my one vote will not stop the coach from winning the election, I can not stand idle and let it happen with out trying to prevent this travesty from coming to pass.

My second issue is the senate race. Our senate seat up for election this year is currently held by a conservative democrat. While our senator will probably get my vote in the general election, it is possible he will lose his seat to the republican challenger.

One challenger is a business man running a very clean and positive campaign focused on the issues. The other is the former state attorney general who ran against our senator last election by one of the dirtier campaigns in recent memory. If our senator is to lose his seat, I would prefer the honest business man running the positive campaign to represent me in the senate rather than the mudslinging former attorney general.

As for our house seat, I will vote for whoever is running against our current republican sock puppet currently occupying the seat.

good evening friends,

it has been a couple of busy weeks. since matthew 's departure, i have been doing all of my job and at least half of matthew's.

spring seems to have really arrived here. we set a record high temperature today, and the trees are greening up nicely. it is a lovely evening to sit out on the porch and surf the net. tomorrow will be back to the grind, but tonight is wonderful weather, a lovely glass of spanish crianza and wireless internet....