I’m preparing to go to the polls to cast my vote. I’m old enough that there’s an “election day” rather than an election season.
I look forward to it with some foreboding. Given my track record my casting a vote for a candidate is practically proof positive that they’ll lose.
The elections I look forward to casting my votes for are for the president of the school board and the board member for our subdistrict. For Chicago that’s a first. There are three candidates running for board president, one endorsed by the mayor and the other two opposed to property tax increases and short term high interest rate loans. I think it’s actually an open question which candidate will win and I’ll be casting my vote for the non-Johnson candidate I think is most likely to win. My concern is that the two non-Johnson candidates will split the anti-Johnson vote and give the election to the candidate the mayor endorsed.
Update
I neglected to mention that I will be voting in the mayoral primary, too. The difficulty in that election is deciding among the several notables running who is the best and is not Brandon Johnson.
