Election Day Parade

Election Day Parade

04.06.04 (10:27 am)   [edit]
Today is an election day here. We're electing a new mayor and county executive today. This library is a polling place, so we've had to have our doors open since about 7:00 AM, even though the library was actually closed. I was the only reference staff member here, but other than a couple of quick questions about where to go to vote, no one really bothered me. :o I was expecting to have to deal with a lot of reference questions and people trying to check out materials before we were "officially" open for business.

As far as the election goes, so far it's been mainly a parade of elderly, retired people. I hope that a more diverse section of the population comes out today, especially because who's ever elected mayor today will ultimately be my new boss. Neither of the candidates are really inspiring and there's little to distinguish between the two of them besides color of skin. The only real "deal breakers" for me and a lot of other "undecideds," I think are that one of the candidates has come under scrutiny for many minor questionable decisions regarding campaign finances and he's had some other political gaffes that really seem to stem from surrounding himself with incompetent advisors. I guess if it's going to come down to that then I have to trust that the one who hasn't made the mistakes in the past will be the better of the two . . .

No matter who wins this election, I think there are going to be some major shakeups in the library's administration because the head city librarian is a member of the mayor's cabinet and the new mayor isn't going to want to keep someone who's a holdout from the previous administration.