The final daze

Every afternoon I have to dig through all the political mailings to get to my bills and other important things (like coupons for carpet cleaning). It appears the preferred piece this election is the 8.5 x 11 booklet. Yesterday I received one from Becky Nace, an attack piece on Albert Reiderer, an attack on Mark Funkhouser, a piece from Jim Glover and then in the council races two of my opponents, and three at-large candidates. That's a lot of money if you multiply that times all the registered voters! I'm glad they're all coming at once and they're all the same size. Hopefully everybody's message will get lost in the noise and go right to the recycle bin. Then there's the phone calls. I quit door to door around 8PM every night. People are a little wary to answer their doors after dark anyway. After 8PM it gets downright creepy! Anyway, as I sat winding down in my living room my phone was ringing every five minutes! Usually "Unknown Name" or "Private Name" on the caller ID. '866' or '888' area codes. It's really irritating when you're trying to relax to have the phone ringing with "vote for me" messages coming one after the other. Is it going to get worse? I feel sorry for Melanie our mail carrier. I bet her satchel is extra heavy this week. Will the phone circuits blow? I'll probably turn my ringer off for the next few days. My mailings are done. I've said what I have to say. There won't be any automated phone calls from my campaign. In these last few days I'll just keep knocking on doors, flipping some yard signs (two last night!) and hoping for the best on Tuesday.