Alachua "Shocker"? I wish

Charlie posted a link to this article in the comments of the previous thread...

Alachua Shocker: Every challenger in city elections is disqualified

All three Alachua City Commission candidates making bids to run against the incumbents in the upcoming Alachua city elections were disqualified today, Feb. 26. This means that the incumbents, Mayor Jean Calderwood and City Commissioner Bonnie Burgess, have no opponents, and, therefore, no election will be held.

Click here to read the rest. Sadly, I don't find that particulary shocking. Much the way the Bush administration's violations of everything our country is supposed to stand for no longer shock me. At a certain point, how do you avoid just becoming numb?

But that's probably what they want, so I guess we have to resist, somehow.

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