At least I hope I did!
First of all, here’s a link to a conversation between myself, Sylvia Garcia, Charles Kuffner, and Greg Wythe this morning on This Week With Sylvia Garcia on the 2011 elections.
After participating in the final candidate forum on “This Week With Sylvia Garcia” on UCTCRadio.com, I headed over to the Metropolitan Service Center on West Gray to visit with some of my favorite judicial candidates who are hard at work collecting signatures from good Democratic voters to earn a place on the ballot. I can’t say it was busy today at about 11:30AM, but I did my duty and participated in this process we call democracy.
Afterwards, I decided to shoot the breeze for a bit with candidates and staffers. Every now and then a prospective voter would arrive and the gaggle of candidates and campaign volunteers would sell their campaigns with the hope of earning a vote. Then the conversations would start up again until the next prospect arrived.
Candidate for At-Large Position 4 Louis Molnar, though, kept himself busy in those lulls, collecting some of the unwanted pushcards–for all of the candidates. In a bit of a lull, he even separated them and offered to give them back. As a candidate, he knows how costly printed material can be; unfortunately, paid campaign volunteers don’t always want them back or they’ll seem as if they aren’t passing them out if they end the day with a huge stack of cards in the trunks of their cars.
So, here’s the thing. You people need to get off your hind-sides, drive over to one of 37 early voting locations, then make your choice. But do it! Because if you don’t vote, you really don’t matter.
