Ballot harvesting is illegal in Texas, as well as in many other states. It basically involves someone taking ballots around to be voted and then transporting those same ballots — which were filled out by people unrelated to the distributor — back to the elections department.
Come on, even the biggest Trump supporters still reading The Advance after I published my Aug. 27th Observations column — “President Trump Supporters Can Disown Me” — have to admit that what the president posted on his Truth Social platform over the weekend just doesn’t look quite normal for a sitting president (see photos accompanying this editorial).
Recently in our little community, we experienced firsthand the messy, complicated business of local government.
As I write this at 5:23 a.m. Tuesday, there’s a bird outside my window that is chirping to beat the band — chirp, chirp, chirp — driving me crazier than I already am.
If the Democrats want to regain seats lost in recent years because they’ve been led by people, for the most part, so far to the Left that they’re out of touch with reality, then their stance on gun control is one area where they can begin to change their rhetoric and elect Democrat politicians who actually make sense.
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