Ya THINK?!?!

No.  That's not a sketch of me.  It's Lawrence Downes, an Editorial Page blogger at my former employer.  He's got a great piece called "Adios, Arpaio," in Monday's Times.  Check it out: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/

A problem solved was still a problem.  

I was contacted by a Gilbert couple who are on the Permanent Early Voter List but hadn’t yet received their ballots in the mail.  They had called the county elections office several times and gotten what they perceived as a runaround.  They were even told “we have alot of information on you,” but not what that “information” is.

Once I sent them a list of the 11 early-voting places in the county, they went to the one near their home.

“We had no trouble at all in voting once we knew where to go,” they reported back to me.

Son of a contact from last week.

A man called in with a unique situation, and the solution was the same as his parents’: Vote early.

He works for FEMA and is waiting to catch a flight to the East Coast in response to Hurricane Sandy.  Although he wasn’t on the Permanent Early Voter List, he wanted the same list that  his parents told them that I had sent to them.

PARENTAL UPDATE: "Yes, my son did get a call from FEMA to report to Dover, DE asap. He finally got a flight out on Wednesday morning. From Delaware he was sent to Yardley, PA, and Friday morning he  was sent to Hoboken, NJ, which received quite a bit of devastation. God knows how long he will be deployed this time.  I might see him next spring."