Springfield Politics

We have elections here this month. On Saint Patrick’s day, so there will surely be lots of drunken voting. After a Sheriff’s Deputy murdered a woman, Sheriff Campbell resigned because of, he said, “threats to his family.” The county then appointed a new Sheriff, Paula Crouch, a woman who has been in law enforcement most of her adult life. The first thing she did as sheriff was to have an iPhone app made for the Sheriff’s Department and county citizens, “with an Android version coming soon.” My second thought was “Why iPhone first when there are more Androids?” My first thought was “Why an app? Why do I need to waste precious phone storage for an app I’ll likely never have a use for? What does this app have that a website can’t? Access to your phone or tablet. This immediately raised suspicion, having once read half of 1984, so I emailed the new sheriff asking why an app and not a website (hopefully a .gov domain so we know it’s legitimate). I never got a reply. Now, I’ve always been one to see an election as hiring a new employee; everyone affected gets a vote in the hiring. If whoever holds the office has done a good job, they get my vote. If, like the current president deserves to be fired, I vote for a replacement. I was all set to vote against Sheriff Crouch; either a snoopy authoritarian or, like most, ignorant of technology. Especially since she had never actually been hired by the voters; I see her as a temp who might become a permanent employee. Now, Representative Budzinski has been doing a good job. I’ll keep track of those who are running against her so I can vote against them again in the future. Damn it, before I got on with DHS (Human Services) I’d been out of work for a couple of years before getting on with the state EPA, and lost that job when I was about due to become permanent and my boss wanted her friend in the position. I see Budzinski’s opponents like whoever it was who stole MY job. Keep that in mind, politicians. Now, Senator Durbin has done an excellent job for Illinois, but is retiring this year. I hate to see him leave, but understand. I’m retired myself and he’s older than me. There are four candidates for his seat, all current representatives. The first is Republican Don Tracy. As the Republican party has become The American Nazi Party with all of its representatives and senators being sock puppets for King Donald the Felonious who hates the Constitutional Rule of Law he calls the “deep state,” there’s no way he or any other Republican will get my vote until their party returns to its senses and ceases being the Autocrat Party. Then there’s Raja. Don’t expect me to be able to spell his last name, it’s even worse than Blago. He’s not getting my vote, either, and not for his name. Not because he’s an immigrant, either. Because only his ads have been on TV constantly since this time last year. Where did all that megamoney come from? Who’s bankrolling this guy? I just can’t trust him for that reason; somebody powerful will want a payback. I don’t know much about Robin Kelly, except she was born in New York and is a representative, and I just don’t like New York (although props for wanting to leave). Juliana Stratton is the current lieutenant governor whose term is up with the governor’s. Her ads speak of previous good works. But the Stratton ad I see more than any other political ad lately is an ad bashing her, attempting to tie her to the crooked former Speaker Madigan. Oddly, the ads are for no one, only against Stratton. At the bottom of the screen it says it was paid for by somebody named “Fairshake”. So I looked them up. They’re boosters of Bitchcoin and the other fake money crypto fraudsters. Their ad assured that Stratton gets my vote, because it’s obvious that Krypto King Krazy Trump hates Stratton even more than the other two Democrats. Now, back to the sheriff. I was all set to vote against her; I didn’t trust her because I don’t trust the people who appointed her. Either she’s ignorant of app shenanigans, like most people, or wants to use them to spy on citizens. Then I saw her opponent’s ad. He’s a steroid-soaked skinhead with his entire left arm covered with tattoos, telling me either he was as dumb as any nineteen year old when disfiguring himself or still is. There’s only one man I’ve ever seen with no hair on his face and head that isn’t a racist redneck, Senator Mark Kelly, a man I admire greatly. Every other one was a violent racist who would have gladly lynched any Black man, and this guy had a violent past as a teenager. So I guess I’ll have to vote for the current sheriff. Any more I won’t write to her, I’ll write about her.