Let's Go
I made my trip to Kentucky the weekend before election day, and the signs were plentiful. In Union County, you saw a lot of these hand-painted blue signs for Brandon Girten, who was running for county jailer. If you've been following this page for a little while, you'll recall that I think that "Let's Go Brandon" thing is about the dumbest thing a bunch of rednecks have come up with since they started mixing Mountain Dew with Popov from a plastic jug, but I thought Brandon Girten's adoption of it was kind of inspired. It didn't do him any good, though. He lost the election to Jason Newton.
Another sign I saw along the way was for Dakota Jones, who was running for county magistrate. This tells me that all those babies that Kentucky parents were naming things like Dakota or Dalton or Madison in the 1990s are old enough to hold office. I worked for a while in an elementary school in the late '90s and saw four dozen boys named Dakota. Now Dakota Jones is the 4th District Magistrate from Union County.
Editor's Note: In Kentucky, a magistrate is an elected representative from a specific district in a county who serves on the Fiscal Court. Contrary to what the name implies, the Fiscal Court is not a judicial body. It's the executive body that governs the county, like a county council. It's led by the county Judge-Executive, who is not really a judge.
Let's Go
I made my trip to Kentucky the weekend before election day, and the signs were plentiful. In Union County, you saw a lot of these hand-painted blue signs for Brandon Girten, who was running for county jailer. If you've been following this page for a little while, you'll recall that I think that "Let's Go Brandon" thing is about the dumbest thing a bunch of rednecks have come up with since they started mixing Mountain Dew with Popov from a plastic jug, but I thought Brandon Girten's adoption of it was kind of inspired. It didn't do him any good, though. He lost the election to Jason Newton.
Another sign I saw along the way was for Dakota Jones, who was running for county magistrate. This tells me that all those babies that Kentucky parents were naming things like Dakota or Dalton or Madison in the 1990s are old enough to hold office. I worked for a while in an elementary school in the late '90s and saw four dozen boys named Dakota. Now Dakota Jones is the 4th District Magistrate from Union County.
Editor's Note: In Kentucky, a magistrate is an elected representative from a specific district in a county who serves on the Fiscal Court. Contrary to what the name implies, the Fiscal Court is not a judicial body. It's the executive body that governs the county, like a county council. It's led by the county Judge-Executive, who is not really a judge.