Polk County Democrats

The Executive Committee made its decision on the new sheriff, and it was in favor of the nomination of Don Hill.  The Board of Commissioners will meet tonight (11/21) at 7:00 to formally approve that nomination.

This long, difficult process has now concluded; let us move on...

The challenge was never much of one, and was concluded on Thursday afternoon with no change in the results.  All three of our new Commissioners will be sworn in on December 1, and then the hard part begins.

It ain't over til it's over, but December 1 is ten days from now and there seems nothing left to prevent Charlene from raising her mighty right hand...

Who can figure out Polk County?  We elected all three County Commissioners, and ought to be on top of the world.  But Obama lost here, so did Kay Hagen and Bev Perdue, so (wretchedly and probably fatally) did Tom Thomas, and virtually everybody else for statewide office.  Democrats did better in Texas than they did in Polk County.  More below the fold.

November 19, 1863, 145 years ago, was the day Abraham Lincoln taught everyone a lesson on how to make a speech.  The main speaker at Gettysburg that day blathered on for two hours about nothing in particular, then surrendered the stage to Lincoln, and history.  Enjoy the Gettysburg Address once again, below the fold.