RALPH E. CHAPMANI have some thoughts about the upcoming election I wanted to share with my neighbors here in Los Alamos.
Specifically, I will talk about the race for New Mexico House District 43 between Stephanie Garcia Richard and Geoff Rodgers. I won’t tell you who to vote for, or even who I will vote for, because, as an old New Englander, I really don’t think it is any of your business.
However, I do have thoughts I would like to share.
I know both candidates. I have spoken multiple times with both candidates. I like both candidates. I respect both candidates. I truly believe both want to do what they think is best for Los Alamos and the region.
So, as far as making your decision on who to vote for, I think it is really straight-forward. Vote for the one you think has the best ideas for helping Los Alamos and its environs thrive in the upcoming years. It is that simple, although I understand that you might also consider other things, such as the make-up of the state House, etc.
Given the crap-fest that is politics these days, you may think it is more complicated than that, but it is not.
As for those enlarged postcard-oid crap sheets you’ve been getting in the mail these days – my lovely bride and I have gotten a tall stack of them – ignore them. You know the ones. They suggest the other candidate is Hitler-ific and makes Joseph Stalin look like a cub scout.
They provide mass-market slander not any more specific to Los Alamos as they are to Prince William County, Virginia or Boston, Massachusetts. Ignore them. Burn them. They are so useless you can’t even use them at the bottom of a bird cage as they are slick (way too slick) and non-absorbent. They repel as they are repulsive.
I suspect if you could follow the meandering tendrils of their origin you would find they all come from the same people and company down in their offices in a cesspool.
—-As an aside, instead of cesspool, I almost said primordial ooze. But as a paleontologist, I actually have an affection for primordial ooze, especially if there are trilobites scuttling in and over it. —-
So, I already suggested above how you should decide on who to vote for, although certainly not who you should vote for. However, I would also suggest that we here in Los Alamos should think about one other thing.
In an election where an amazingly large number of people in various parts of this country have as their main voting options at least one individual that combines the nastiness of Josef Mengele with the intellectual prowess of a pile of steel wool….
I think that we in Los Alamos should realize that, in this race, we get to choose between two people who I believe are quality individuals; people who truly want to do what they think is best for our community. We actually get to vote FOR someone and not AGAINST the other.
And I think that is pretty spiffy and something we should take pride in.
Don’t know why, but I just got a flashback of Robert Goulet singing “Camelot” on Broadway – clearly an over-reaction – but you get the point.
