Washington City Rolls On…

OK, not sure how many people are reading those, but I know some of Washington City Citizen’s parents are checking in, so I figured I would do an update on a truly outstanding 24 hours for our city.

First off, we went from 18 demerits for rooms on Day 1 to 1 on day 2, and none on Day 3.  So my sheriff has been doing a great job there.  In sports, our basketball team won again, into the semi-finals.  Our volleyball team won, into the semi-finals.  Our soccer team won, into the semi-finals.  Our ping pong guy won, into the semi-finals.  Our Tennis players lost to some guys ranked in state and are out, and our football team got shellacked, so they are out but have a game for 2 points this afternoon.  (Despite having two guys that shared names with players on my beloved New England Patriots.)  So, out of the 4 cities in our division, we won in over half the sports, which is just great.

Our moot court goes today.  They are defending a guy (based on an actual case) who was arrested for possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance.   The kids seem to have a good grasp and I have high hopes for them.  Also have Better Speaking contestant today, and I’m told he is also excellent.

This morning we heard from Bill Bolling, the Lt Gov of Virginia.  He was outstanding as always.  Very Republican guy, but had some excellent and very classy comments about our Democratic Governor, Tim Kaine, who will speak tomorrow.  I am a big fan of Kaine personally from having met him here in the past.  I don’t like his politics, but he is a great personable guy.

The big event here in the past 24 hours has been the party conventions, with all the citizens from each party convening, minus those elected to the House of Delegates and Senate.  We’ve also lost 3 kids at Boys State to deaths in the family.  Although the boys have only known each other for 4 days, everyone of them expressed their sincere feelings for them before they left, and asked me to ensure that each of the boys officially graduated despite not being here.  No real problems in Washington thank God, but I hope each of those citizens of Boys State know that the kids here prayed for them and their families during our daily prayer session this morning.

Anyway, our Conventions went PHENOMENALLY WELL for Washington City.  The Federalists and Nationalists each voted a party chair to run the convention.  Our candidate on the Nationalist side managed to be elected to that position on the second ballot, a relatively rare feat.  Kid is crafty.  Very crafty.  So that was a huge win.

But bigger yet was our historic candidate for Lt Gov.  16 cities nominated candidates, although some were multiple nominations so there were 8 total candidates.  Our candidate for Lt Gov, an Indian guy (Sahil Patel) made a funny speech.  Part of his speech included: “My working experience as manager of the Quik-e-mart is an asset, and I promise exact change for your slurpees.”  Also: “I have community experience up the butt….no homo.”  He was elected on the first ballot with 56% of the vote.    No one at Boys State can remember this happening in the time they have been here.  Not only did he take votes from his city and other cities without candidates, he managed to even get votes from cities that had their own candidates up for the nomination.

That means that of the 8 state-wide races, my guys (1 of 16 cities) managed to take 2 of them.  In addition, one of the Washington City State Senators was elected the Majority Leader in the State Senate.  We even ran a Governor candidate without having anything left to barter, having used up our goodwill to elect our 2 other guys.  Despite all that, he emerged from the original 9 candidates to make it to the second ballot of 3 candidates.  In that ballot, he took 37% of the vote, with the Governor Nominee getting 52%, meaning our guy took second.  Although we get no points for that, it is astonishing that with nothing left to barter, we still managed to pull second. 

Anyway, the kids are doing phenomenally well, and barring an utter collapse in the home stretch, this will likely be my second year in a row winning Best City.  I’d like to take credit, but it is all the guys.  I just provide the knowledge I can and help them.  They are hard working, and so far, excelling beyond belief.

Category: Politics