Oh politics. Got my ballot in the mail yesterday and I spent breakfast chewing over an omelet and the issues that were unfamiliar to me. Reading bills is boring. But the specific bill that’s the last thing on the ballot is a particularly dryly-worded thing that points to a bill that is an absolutely meaningless re-definition of “outlet malls”… meaningless until it’s put into the specific context of what’s being fought over. I’m not sure on the issue, but with the number of mailers being direct-mailed to voters, I guess it’s a pretty high-ticket item to at least two moneyed individuals. I’D propose a bill that requires any bill to have an attached rider that explains what problem’s being fixed, because in this you’ve really got to do some digging before you start to figure out why anyone should care how an outlet mall is defined.
Man, I can’t wait until November 9th. Then we just wait for the dust to clear, the ash to settle, and TRY to talk to our family-members again – we’ll see how many personal relationships have been permanently sundered.
