It’s primary season in Florida, time to pick our favorite judges, state reps, dog catchers,  school board commissioners, and last but not least the two candidates who will face off in November to be our governor.   With all the negative campaigning, and the fact that many local candidates are prohibited from expressing from whence they crawled, left or right, it just seems like such a waste of time and resources.

But yes, I’m privileged to vote and will do so, and I have settled on a selection process that works for me, and hopefully for you.   It is a point system, and whichever candidate racks up the least points, they then receive my vote.  Points can be earned in the following way :  1 negative point for a smiley four-color mailer,  2 negative points for a television ad smearing  an opponent,  3 negative points for anyone that knocks on my door or litters my porch with a written sales pitch.    4 points can be earned if I see someone other than the candidate jumping up and down at a traffic intersection waving a sign, and finally a 5 point penalty for a recorded phone message.   Immediate exclusion can be earned if the above-mentioned telephone call interrupts the wonderful dinner my wife has cooked.

So there, a low risk,  low effort way to make decisions about folks I don’t really care about.  WHAT THE HECK !