Election Day - by - Burma Shave

From the 1930’s to the 1960’s Burma Shave took its rhyming advertising to the consumers of America in a changing series of roadside signs.

Every shaver -

Now can snore -

Six more minutes -

Than before -

Burma-Shave

And things like that. Election Day in northern Georgia - Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in fact, could be a political rhyme for our time.

Save America -

Like Before -

Stop Communism -

And Nancy Pelosi -

Flood the Polls!

The Boynton Precinct was doing steady business at 11:30, the parking lot close to full. The signs lining the street were unattended, Burma Shave style, except for a few hearty souls, holding signs for county offices.

They maintained the same distance that is required back home, 150 feet. Chuck Harris, running for re-election to the County Commission handed me his campaign card. All things being equal, I’m inclined to vote for a person who’s out there asking for my vote.

Note the election dates.

He had never run for anything. But four years ago a Publix was approved for a small road in his neighborhood. He thought it was the county, but it wasn’t. But people encouraged him to get involved in county affairs and he did. He likes it. Right now he’s working through traffic issues around two new schools.

This is Georgia and growth has come north from Atlanta. I saw this further south in Cartersville. But Chuck sees it now encroaching from the north, Chattanooga.

I am visiting family in Tennessee, so this is not an official listening tour stop. I ask about the congressional race and if Greene will win. He thinks she’ll be fine. He gets standing up to authority. But he wishes she were more attentive to her district. She was responsive when he asked for American flags for a commemoration. But not so much when the county asks for federal funds. He added that he likes her personally.

5900 votes have been cast early in Boynton. That’s a lot. In the past you would expect equal numbers of early votes and same day votes, but Chuck thinks that will be off this year.

Down the road in Dalton the voting location at City Hall is quiet.

But the Bar B Q on the way home to Tennessee is anything butt.