Code Neon Blue!

February 5 seems like a long ways away, but it’s really not. As you no doubt know, Colorado joined in with the many other states who will be doing their primary voting that day. I’ve seen two suggestions for the name upgrade for “Super Tuesday". I’m not in love with “Tsunami Tuesday", but I have to admit “Super-Duper Tuesday” is just TOO wildly enthusiastic. And coming from me, that’s saying something.

I was pleased to see that the Lamar Ledger editor DID find room in the Friday paper for my little article about the last day to register a party affiliation. It was nice of her to take the extra trouble.

Today I got to check another thing off my to-do list. I had been calling around last week in search of a location to hold the precinct caucuses. The Lamar Community Building is pretty central, and has good sized rooms and convenient parking, BUT there’s a big basketball game already scheduled for the same night. So the Community Building was out. Since Lamar Middle School and Washington Elementary are located almost beside it, sometimes the overflow parking washes up against their shores. So they were out too.

The largest school location is the high school. They have a nice big parking lot (which my freshman son has big dreams of getting to personally use someday, but that’s a whole nother issue, and not one with political overtones, so we won’t be doing the follow-up here). There is a small downside — folks might be leaving from the JV basketball game being held there at about the same time as all the Dems are showing up. But even considering that, the high school is still the best choice overall, so today I went to fill out an application to reserve it.

So now we cross our fingers until it gets approved. Then we only have to settle things for the county’s other towns (Granada and Holly), and we’ll be all ready for Whatever You Want To Call It Tuesday!