In our home county (Pinellas County, Florida), with election returns in from 254 of 380 precincts (hey, California, your polls aren't even closed yet, so get cracking), Prez. George Bush is leading Sen. John Kerry, 189,959 to 180,212 or 50.85 percent to 48.24 percent.
Further down the ballot, Bubba Clem has gathered 26.30 percent in a two man race for Sheriff.
Bubba Clem, also known as "Bubba the Love Sponge," is a former radio DJ of the "shock jock" genre. How bad was he as a DJ? Bad. So bad that the FCC fined Clear Channel Communications over $700,000 for his performances. He was fined $23,000 by the FCC in 1998 for airing indecent material. In 2002, he was acquitted of animal cruelty charges after a pig was castrated and killed during one of his broadcasts.
You can say what you want about his performance as a DJ but he is as qualified to be our next sheriff as our house cat. And we don't even have a house cat. Nevertheless, 26.30 percent of the voters in my county have voted for him, and 50.85 percent have voted for Dubya.
P.T. Barnum was right.
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Not sure who Dubya was, but I voted for him anyways... I think it would be a conflict of interest to have a Sponge in office (Squarepants or otherwise).
Laurel
PS Congrats on the scuba certification!
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