Officially An Ohio Resident

I am now, officially, an Ohio resident. My SUV is insured and titled in the state. I have a state-issued driver’s license, and an official State of Ohio handicapped placard to hang from my rear view mirror.

I’m even registered to vote here. I am one of those people despised by the MAGA crowd…I’m a RINO!!! Republican In Name Only.. Oh, once I was a believer in the Republican cause. Before they became the bigoted bunch of baboons lead by the Giant Orange Zit. I cast my very first presidential vote for Barry Goldwater, and in 1968 I voted for Richard (I am not a crook) Nixon. That was it. Since then I’ve only voted for one Republican. Let me tell you about that…

In 2016 I registered to vote in Manatee County, Florida. At the time I was living on a small boat at anchor off of Anna Maria Island, just south of Tampa Bay. I registered as a Democrat. When the polls opened I went online and checked where I needed to go to vote. When I got there I was told I wasn’t registered. After a bunch of back and forth I was given a provisonal ballot. I knew there was going to be a problem when the people didn’t know what the hell to do with it once the ballot was in the envelope I’d signed.

I waited a couple of weeks and then went to the country election offices which were conveniently located at the end of the bus route I needed to take to get to the mainland…what I called The Darkside. The clerk at the front desk explained that my vote was not recorded because the address I’d given when I registered was a mail drop and that wasn’t allowed. It’s good enough for the state to allow you to use a mail drop address on your driver’s license but not as your voting address. 

The clerk and I were having trouble trying to figure out how to remedy the situation when a gentleman came out of an office and asked what the problem was. When we explained it to him he sat down at the computer keyboard and typed away. My official address for voting was HIS OFFICE ADDRESS!!! He was head of the whole Manatee shebang and even though he was a Republican and I was registering as a Democrat he signed me up. He did his job and he was deserving of my vote in the general election and he got it.

When I moved from the island to The Swamp on the Saint Johns River in Debary, FL I changed my registration to Republican so I can vote in those douchebag’s primaries and mess with them a bit.