Voters' Guide, with cantaloupe

First, wear the birthday present.

 It's dinner at RantMom's time. Remember to wear the birthday present: the RantFamily answered RantWoman's pleas brilliantly. In fact, they were NOT subtle in their opinion that RantWoman needed a new hat. They marched themselves over to Byrnie Utz hats, plunked down some cash and came home with a wonderful PAPER gift certificate.


During an after-birthday visit live and in person to the actuall bricks and mortar location, RantWoman found a terrific hat that did not even spend the whole gift certificate. RantWoman wanted to save the leftover funds until something RantWoman wanted is in stock. Instead RantWoman got some case refunded; RantWoman WISHES she were disciplined enough to hold onto the cash herself; she is not! But back to voting.

The RantWomen have cast our primary ballots!

Fine dining beforehand included mandatory summer items like green salad, zucchini, cantaloupe, some new gluten-free ginger cookies RantMom decided to try. RantWoman recommends the ginger cookies but suspects that other more subtle flavors would not fare so well with that cookie's flour mix. Now back to voting.

Endorsements? Anyone who thinks a RantWoman endorsement would help is welcome to ask. In the meantime, some not-endorsements:

--Look y'all. Sometimes people vote under circumstances of media emergency, in this case, the total demise of RantMom's old hand-me-down television. The RantWomen based our decisions this time around almost entirely on the content of the voter's guide, what RantMom remembers of one newspaper's endorsements, and various vehement but not necessarily fully-validated opinions. Think about that next time you are drafting candidates' statements.

--Sorry, Mr. GoodSpaceGuy, you are doing really well about recognizable name. Unfortunately that means RantWoman is even less likely this time around to vote for you than last time. So it's a different office? RantWoman did not even scrape her eyeballs over your voter's guide statement long enough to test whether or not to change last year's opinion.

--Give me something to work with: Dear friends from the Freedom Socialist Party, RantWoman is NOT squeamish about your name but PLEASE give RantWoman something to work with. Give me SOMETHING indicating that a candidate has taken enough time to learn at least ONE buzzword known to people actually engaged in policy. Send some candidates to the ubiquitous opportunities to observe Seattle process. Heck, RantWoman, who admittedly has a high tolerance for strident wording, would not even mind if a candidate's voter's guide statement said something inflammatory like "Proposed transit cuts are a bourgeois plot and I favor...."

--Buzzwords RantWoman considers important which were nowhere to be seen in anyone's candidate's statements:

Digital Inclusion

Fiber to the Home

Next generation broadband

Walkability

Crumbiing infrastructure.

Regional transportation needs.

and so on

and so on

and so on so that RantWoman needs to stop NOW so she does not hyperventilate.

Remember to get your ballots in the mail by August 6.



But wait! The RantWomen were not finished. RantWoman and then RantMom found ourselves drawn to the real estate ads on the back of the Pacific magazine. RantWoman is wondering why ANYONE would pay several million dollars for a domicile that includes more garage spaces than bathrooms. RantMom suggests "Let's start a commune!" !?!?!?!