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Editor's Note
Honestly, it's hard to collect the weird news in a week in which so much ink and bandwidth have been sucked out by the monumental U.S. elections (hard, that is, without lowering my standards too much). I mean, we had a local Supervisor of Elections here in Weird Central who announced Wednesday morning that he was comfortably ahead in his re-election vote tally (despite the fact that he was, bar none, the worst candidate for any office on the ballot), which led to hand-wringing by all the local commentators about how stupid we voters could be to re-elect him, and then it turned out yesterday that, oh, by the way, the guy's office didn't count two weeks of heavy early-voting ballots yet. (Sweet irony: When they counted those, he lost by 18,000.) Yikes. Anyway, maybe the news world will get back to normal next week. Tampa Tribune
Honestly, it's hard to collect the weird news in a week in which so much ink and bandwidth have been sucked out by the monumental U.S. elections (hard, that is, without lowering my standards too much). I mean, we had a local Supervisor of Elections here in Weird Central who announced Wednesday morning that he was comfortably ahead in his re-election vote tally (despite the fact that he was, bar none, the worst candidate for any office on the ballot), which led to hand-wringing by all the local commentators about how stupid we voters could be to re-elect him, and then it turned out yesterday that, oh, by the way, the guy's office didn't count two weeks of heavy early-voting ballots yet. (Sweet irony: When they counted those, he lost by 18,000.) Yikes. Anyway, maybe the news world will get back to normal next week. Tampa Tribune
Comments
"Normal" being a relative term in Florida, of course.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 11/07/08 at 11:00 AM
Hay! I've got relatives in Florida!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/07/08 at 11:08 AM
Expat, are we related? Play Cousins twice removed on my mother's side, maybe?
Posted by avmayes614 in the wt"F"-State on 11/07/08 at 02:44 PM
Expat... I noticed you merely stated you have relations in Florida without actually stepping up to defend the state.
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 11/07/08 at 04:00 PM
Well, ah...., ya' see.... ummm...
OK! Great state.
OK! Great state.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/08/08 at 12:50 AM
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