u/TheRealFiremonkey

Looks like they missed something when they converted everything to “The District”.

Before going into oven for braise, and then when done. Meat looks cooked in the before pic because I gave it a hard sear over a hot charcoal fire before putting in with the rest of the ingredients and braising for a few hours.

Delicious.

There are currently ~275K registered voters in Lake County. ~131K of them are registered republican. Thats fewer than half. The other 144,000 voters in the county will not get to cast a vote for the county commission seat currently held by Sean Parks. The reason: Sean wants it that way.

We have a primary election for county commissioners, where each party votes for who their candidate will be in the general election. The problem is, that when one party doesn’t /have/ a candidate, then whoever wins the primary for the other party basically wins the general by default - as they’ll be unopposed. When this happens, voters from all parties get to vote in the contested primary, because that primary is effectively deciding who gets the seat. Except there’s a loophole, and Sean Parks loves to use it.

It’s the old “write-in” game, where someone files (usually a friend/supporter of one of the candidates) to be a write in candidate, which closes the primary election. The legal basis is that the presence of a write in candidate technically represents a challenger in the general election, and therefore the primary should be limited to only voters of the listed party. Even if that write in candidate isn’t a serious candidate, raises not a single dollar, and does zero campaigning, their mere presence on the roster locks out over half the voters.

Sean Parks has employed this technique every time he’s been up for election, and he’s done it again this time. Why is he so afraid of letting the entirety of Lake county cast a vote for or against his track record? Instead, he alienates over half the county. Is it legal? Yes. Is it dirty? Also yes. But that’s how Sean rolls.