The Chairman

Warning—-this is a political post. Actually, I think the next couple of days of content will be political. I’m not sure since I haven’t written them yet.

I said on my “How I Roll” page that I don’t know anyone in office. Well, as it turns out, I do.

Meet Fred. He is the Chairman of the governing body for Harmony Township in somewhere Pennsylvania. He is responsible for 500 constituents and 23 miles of dirt roads. We need someone like Fred to stare down some officials from PennDOT or the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. More about that later.

Fred is married to Carol who is the sister to Gwen who is married to my Uncle Ed, who really isn’t my Uncle Ed. Uncle Ed and Gwen are good friends of my parents.

Okay, moving on.

Fred won his election by a very slim margin of votes, 14 – 11. The incumbent either forgot to vote for himself or didn’t realize that Fred was a force to be reckoned with so he just stayed home on election day. Not only did he forget to vote, but so did his wife and his mother. Which would have made it 14 – 14. There would have to at least be a run-off.

I do believe that he deserved to lose.

Here is Fred showing me the permit that he issued himself for the fireworks display scheduled for later on that night. Sorry Fred, no anonymity here, you’re on the world wide web now.

Of course we were not in his jurisdiction which renders the permit moot. Anyway, the cops may not know it if they did come.

Yippeee!!!!

By the way, in the next election, he can count my Uncle Walt and Aunt Annaliese for votes since they have now officially moved to Harmony Township from LonG Island. So even if the loser’s wife and mother both vote next time, Fred will still have him by two.

How many times in our democracy do we have to reiterate this? Every vote counts!