One of the public servants we cats most admire these days is Virginia House Delegate Danica Roem (D-Manassas Park). She's famous for being openly transgender, and we think that's great — especially since she defeated a 13-term homophobic Republican pig — but we like her even more because she's completely dedicated to the minutiae of governing and improving the lives of her constituents.
Delegate Roem made the fixing horrendous traffic on Route 28, which as former Prince William County residents we've sat in for hours, a top priority of her campaign. Since taking office, she's been focused like a laser beam on it — and on other infrastructure and quality-of-life issues that make most pundits' eyes glaze over. But you know what? They're the things that really matter to everyday voters. Good on you, Danica!
Danica's polar opposite these days could be Ron DeSantis, the repugnant GOP nominee for Governor of Florida. We could call DeSantis many things — far-right, racist, xenophobe and dog whistler come to mind — but sadly for the people of the Sunshine State he couldn't care less about solving their problems. Transportation, in fact, is a good example: DeSantis recently appeared before the National Federation of Independent Business and was asked what he was going to do about Tampa Bay's epic traffic jams. "Well be rolling out a transportation policy soon," he said.
"Soon"? It's six weeks to Election Day. This guy is lame. And his campaign operation is getting poor marks, too. No wonder Democrat Andrew Gillum is up in the polls.
So, does the national GOP cut DeSantis loose? Unlikely: Even if DeSantis slides into irrelevance by mid-October, they can't triage him off the funding list for fear it would damage their Senatorial candidate, Rick Scott. So they'll have to keep throwing good money after bad.
The best of all possible worlds. We cats PURR.
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