On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:12:35 -0700, Jim Weir wrote:

It isn't the PARTY, it is the PERSON. In a municipal election, nobody gives a
hairy rat's ass what your PARTY is, but what you will do for THEM.

I'll go one step further. Around here one party member will run as the
opposing party so that they can compete without ruining the chances of the
other. I.e. we have a Republican Sheriff that's really a Democrat that
run as a Republican so that he wouldn't compete against another Democrat
in the Primary that he couldn't hope to beat.

It's common around here and so the party system means nothing because we
have both parties doing it.