It’s dark days for trying to do local political metacommentary. The election isn’t in enough swing to really make fun of campaign stuff, and the legislature is out of session. So all I get from the GOP caucuses is press releases like this about how people are holding town halls. So instead of making fun of the Republicans, I’m just going to use this Republican press release to air one of my pet peeves about Washington politics. Emphasis mine.
Reps. J.T. Wilcox, R-Yelm, and Graham Hunt, R-Orting, will hold an hour-long telephone town hall for 2nd District residents Wednesday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m.
We have to come up with a more uniform system of labeling where people represent. Seriously, you look at that, and you think, oh, the person who represents Yelm and the person who represents Orting are going to get together and discuss stuff, cool. But in fact, they both represent Yelm and they both represent Orting. I see this all the time, and I assume this is based on where they live, or possibly where their district office is located?
And it seems like the solution is simple enough: Just name the districts after the geography. Then everyone can be from the same place. Also, when people are talking about districts, there will be a name instead of a number, so I won’t have to look at a damn map to have a conversation.
Seriously, the next redistricting commission should get on that.
You mean like this? I. M. Idiot, R-Eastern Washington Except Parts Of Spokane
@1: Something like that.
Or better yet,
Ima Moron, D-Seattle, UW District
@3 No, I don’t think you could pass yourself off as a Democrat in the U. District. You could try Auburn, though. They have stupid voters there.
Wrong again IDIOT Wabbit… Good try though!
I.B. Stupid, D-Shoreline
U.R. Dumb, D-Tacoma