It’s The Friday Before The Election: Do You Know Where Your Attack Ads Are?

I honestly could not come up with anything better for a title for this post.

Hey, give me a damned break: It’s the Friday before the election, and this is just about the first morning where my unruly siatic nerve will actually allow me to sit in a chair for an extended period of time without feeling the need to rip my leg off and start beating it against the wall.

Anyway, the Friday before election day always seems to have a sad connotation for me. I don’t know why, but it’s kind of like that feeling you get on Christmas Eve when you start getting sad that the Christmas season will be over on Christmas Day. And, that feeling always settles in on a Friday because there is no time to think on Monday before election day, especially if you are up to your knees in murky water in a ditch that is much deeper than it looked on a Farm to Market Road putting up John Kerry signs on a fence and hoping you don’t get shot (hello, 2004!).

So, in honor of this being the last Friday before the election, I’m doing kind of a link-dump thing. Enjoy it, because some of these stories made me laugh. It could be lack of sleep, it could be that I was watching a re-run of South Park from last night and that made me laugh and it just all blended together. I don’t know because I’m tired and my nerve is still behaving badly.
Anyway…

The Texas Young Democrats Blue Star State Blog tells us about Anita Perry getting confronted by Democrats in Lampassas and curring her visit short.

PDiddie is all over the Houston Janitor’s strike today. I happened to catch a little of that on CNN this afternoon right when it started and it was somewhat funny because the anchor was kind of like, “wait, you mean, all they want is $8 an hour?” It was like a news anchor actually saw reason for a moment.

BOR tells us Martha Wong does not like smart voters. And that Jim McReynold’s opponent just got nearly half a million dollars from Texans for Lawsuit Reform. And, Todd Staples real first name is “Douglas,” and he just shot his whole wad of campaign cash.
This is the post that I read and laughed so hard that, because of my siatic nerve problems, my vision went blurry: State Rep. John Davis poured fish fry grease down a toilet. I kept asking myself “Really?!?” kind of like Kyle in the 9/11 conspiracy episode of South Park (which is also related to this sorry John Davis episode because it involved putting unauthorized items in inappropriate toilet facilities).

If you’re out in the P-Handle on Monday (that’s Panhandle for those of you who don’t abbreviate all areas of Texas like I do (H-Town, A-Town, P-Woods, etc.), you can have breakfast with Chris Bell…for $7.95. I wanted to bring this up because it highlights how differently the GOP and Democratic candidates always spend the last days of the campaigns: Republicans campaign in private religious schools and in tony suburbs while Democrats get out there with the real people.

Enjoy your Friday. Go vote early while you still can so you can sit home and read CapitolAnnex.com all day on Election Day.