I was watching yesterday's election results with anticipation. Basically, it boils down to this: if our current city marshall stays, we will be making plans to exit in December when I get my degree. If he goes, we'll plan to stick around (although we might need to split our time between two homes while I finish my bachelor's and head on to law school).

Basically, our council has been split between two decent council persons, two awful councilpersons, and a swing vote. Well, this spring, one decent, one awful, and the swing vote came up for election. I am FAR from the only person who wants to get rid of this marshal; the vast majority of the community can't stand him (the way it goes here, generally, is only a handful of folks do the bullying; the majority of the town just cowers in fear hoping the bullies won't single them out). I did not vote in the election, as it was important to me to know what the town really thought, with the polling booth curtain drawn and being able to cast their votes in anonymity.

The bad one is out. The swing vote is out. The only incumbent to stay in is the one who has been halfway decent. So there could be some changes on the horizon, especially as the leading vote getter ran SPECIFICALLY on the premise that he would work to get rid of this marshal. We'll see what happens, but it looks pretty good so far. We managed to dump a muni court judge, now hopefully we can follow with the marshall.