WE WON!

Well not me, but the candidate I was backing for State's Attorney. This was a nail biter going into it for me, if only because I have to deal with the results of an SA who should not be, and because this race got so dirty, it was appalling.



Jeff Bradley is a young attorney (well hell, I think everyone is young now) but he has been in the SA office for several years, and I think will follow the tradition of the current SA, Gary Duncan, who has been a fair, solid reasonable prosecutor (in my experience, a rare bird, but you know my bias) Considering my bias, it is particularly remarkable that these two are on my list as good people, and have become good friends. I do know that is not an endorsement to most people, so I shhh about it.

In any event, Jeff had a decisive victory and I am THRILLED for him.

This dude on the left is my buddy Bob. He has done more than his share of time awaiting election results that made him a state rep over and over, but really he is an oil man. My parents live across the street from him, and as I have gotten older, we have gotten to be great buddies. The stories he can tell crack me up. His collection of political memorabilia should be in a museum, and his personal history is fascinating. He used to have racehorses, and always asks about the babies and really listens when I tell him. He is just a treasure.

Besides seeing Bob which is always swell, it was also fun to introduce Barry to people. I realize it is just small town politics, but since he is not from here, he does not have all the context to know who some of these people are--or that the guy he plays golf with was a senator for a while. Never occurred to me to mention that I guess, and he sure did not care enough to wonder what their job was. I had a heck of a time getting through to him that the dude I showed him that had a certain building named after him was really that man, he thought I meant he was the mayor when that building was made. No, that is really him. Kind of cute. He also did not realize the connections between a lot of people that we know really well--familial relationships, campaign managers, used to be marrieds, that sort of stuff. It was an interesting evening, and made me feel much closer to the legal community than I normally do around here