Politicians are sneaky

Yesterday was the last day to file as a candidate for Commissioner. Unless it was published in the paper, a lot of us had no idea who would be running until after 4 p.m. on May 11th 2010.

Here is the list:Candidate List

Much to my surprise, the incumbent for District 1, Dan Stewart (D), is a switch hitter. He is now running as a Republican.

There are 3 of us on the Republican ticket. No one on the Democratic ticket.

There are a few reasons I can assume this was done:

I heard that he was originally a Republican. When he ran for the first time 4 years ago, the incumbent, Jim Capitan, was a Republican. He must have chose to switch hit because he thought he had a better chance of beating Mr. Capitan as a Democrat. Well, he did just that.

Since there are 3 people running on the Republican ticket, whomever wins the primary, wins the seat. Unless of course, there is a write-in come November. That scenario is highly unlikely.

It is a Republican year. It is possible he thinks that he can retain his Democratic votes while also snagging Republican votes to win. Since this is a Governor's election year, I don't think that could happen. In August, you have to vote straight ticket. I don't see many people switching their vote to Republican and wasting their Governor hopeful primary vote. I could be wrong though.


It could also be that he is lazy. He doesn't really want to work that hard towards the primaries. After all, he just wants to retain the seat.

The Republican party doesn't care who wins either. They just want the seat since a Democrat has held it for 4 years.

So he was able to snag money from the Democratic party, and now he will do the same thing with the Republican party. There is no loyalty when it comes to politics.

I will just have to work 3 times as hard to win the primaries.

The county wants change, not confusion.