Election Endorsements 2021

There's a big storm where I live - late October is fast becoming my least favorite time of year (especially after Sandy, nine years ago this time) - but that isn't going to distract me from doing my duty as a citizen and issue my election endorsements for 2021.  I voted already - early voting is now in New Jersey - but, thanks to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's cynical hijacking of the Postal Service and his decision to emaciate the agency and make service slow and unreliable, I would not advise voting by mail unless you pick up the ballot yourself form your county clerk's office and put it in a ballot drop box rather than a mailbox.

That out of the way, I now offer this blog's endorsements for Election Day next week.

For Mayor of New York City: This blog endorses Democrat Eric Adams.  Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, whose group is famous for patrolling Times Square, has diabolical ideas for New York City - like getting rid of COVID vaccine mandates. Eric Adams, who was a real cop, wants to make the city safer both from crime and from COVID.

For Governor of New Jersey: This blog endorses incumbent Democrat Phil Murphy.  Murphy's progressive record is based largely on initiatives first introduced by the Democratic legislature under former Republican Governor Chris Christie and re-introduced over and over until we finally had a Democratic governor to sign them into law.  And he did.  Even if our governor is more reactive than proactive, he's still pushing New Jersey forward, and as he said, New Jersey isn't going back.

For Governor of Virginia: This blog endorses former Democratic governor Terry McAuliffe.  Really.  He compiled a fine record in Virginia when he was governor last time, so why not give him another term?  Besides, his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin is trying to seem moderate and accommodating to people who may disagree with him while giving a nod and a wink to Trump supporters by endorsing some of their policy objectives - no COVID vaccine mandates, no teaching of critical race theory in public universities but pretending it's meant for elementary schools - but saying that he personally can't stand their tactics.  Virginia doesn't need a governor who gives the voters two faces for the price of one. 

For Mayor of Boston: This blog is making no endorsement, because, quite frankly, I have not followed that campaign.  All I know for certain is that the winner will be a woman because there are only two candidates to choose from, both women.  I'm sorry to say, though, that nether one of them is an Irish Catholic.  Didn't God decree that the mayor of Boston should always be an Irish Catholic? Or the Muses, or St. Patrick, or someone like that?

Those are my endorsements.  Now go out and vote.  Boston, you're on your own. 😉