The sky is falling; the sky is falling...

To the Editor:

Now California state and county election officials are in hysterics about the coming Governor Davis recall election. They are running around and squawking, "The sky is falling, the sky is falling" and saying that they don't have enough time to hold this election and that they weren't warned (I guess that they haven't bothered to read the daily newspapers or watch TV in the last three months). It's a very common attitude these days, with American whiner-babies leading the parade.

These election officials seem to have plenty of time to write and distribute press releases and hold "background briefings" with reporters about their alleged problems with holding an election within ninety days or so this fall.

Pray tell what exactly do election officials do between elections? I mean, besides chasing their secretaries around the office, reading their endless memos and Emails to each other and buffing their nails.

Today, 23 July 2003, the newspaper stories about the coming recall election are designed to "shock and awe" us common folks. In the San Francisco Chronicle, the page five story is headlined, "Early recall election sounds like doomsday to officials." The Contra Costa Times page one story is headlined, "Recall process befuddles officials." The Sacramento Bee's page one story is headlined, "Elections officials raise specter of Florida fiasco." Hmm, is Bush going to steal the California recall election too?

Why don't these guys just shut up and do their job to the best of their abilities? I guess that it wouldn't go with the tenor of modern times: media splashes, blaming others, and "reality TV."

Maybe it is time to consider recalling our state and county election officials if their not up to the job.

Yours truly,

James K. Sayre

23 July 2003