Off The Editor’s Desk – 10-28-2020
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Have you voted yet?
Just before the last presidential debate was set to start last Thursday, evening, October 22, I could not believe what I heard over the television. I was informed that over 40 million people have already voted and that mail-in ballots can still be counted for up to ten days after the election is over.
That means that I will not get any sleep until Friday, November 13th, before all the ballots are counted and a winner announced. That will be someone’s unlucky day. We are overrun with political advertising, which in my business is just great. But, one reoccurring message over many election cycles is to take money out of the campaign so people with millions cannot donate to sway voters to their way of thinking.
So, that may be good, but without money candidates can’t get their name in front of the populace. Just to make my point, can you, other than Trump and Biden, name the other candidates running for president of the United States? You probably can’t, and that is because they do not have the money to get their names out.
Over these past months I have tried to make everyone aware of what might happen if the election turns out one way or the other and if 40 million people have already voted, maybe the election outcome has already been decided. So at this late date I am not going to tell you how to vote or who to vote for. But, just make sure you vote next Tuesday.
I just hope that come next February I can tell you how happy I am to see everyone in Washington, D.C. going to work and all working together for the betterment of our great nation.
Wisconsin Watch informed me that unlike this spring primary, most local clerks say they will have enough workers to staff their polling sites for election day, including Milwaukee, where April 7th saw long lines.
Next Tuesday, Wisconsin voters will be deciding on more than $1.1 billion in K-12 school referendums across the state. A total that when combined with the ballot measurers from last April, puts more school money on the ballot this year than any other single year this century. I have been around for a long time and I can not remember ever when it’s budget time for schools, that there hasn’t been a call for more money to schools. Are we getting the best bang for our buck in our local schools?
Only once that I can recall that the electors at the annual school meeting in Glenwood City voted down the school’s proposed budget. What happened? Nothing, because the school board has the power to set the budget come October, so why have the vote at the annual meeting? The annual meeting has never drawn in many district people ever since they took the election of school board members away from the annual meeting and placed it on the Spring Ballot.
Get out and vote!
Thanks for reading! ~Carlton