Vermont politics

My mother is running to be a state representative in Vermont. I think it's great. She was married to my father for 26 years, 14 of which he was a state rep. She helped with the mailings, driving people to and from the polls, and worrying about the outcome, but now she's running, in a different district than my father's and my old one. Her Republican opponent? My ex-boyfriend. We dated for 2.5 years beginning my senior year in high school. He is 10 years older than me, and when you're in high school, that's a lot. Now he's almost 40. He told me when I saw him in June that he was considering running as a Libertarian and was going to ask my father for advice. How funny that a month later it's my mother who is running against him and my father wouldn't be giving Jeff any advice (my parents are still friendly).

I took a course at UVM called Vermont Politics and I thought I would easily ace it, but it turns out it was more like Vermont political history and my years as the daughter of a State Rep didn't mean anything. Especially when the VT legislature is pretty democratic -- there are 180 legislators for the less than 600,000 people living in Vermont -- in fact, there was another daughter of a state rep in my class.

Anyway, I hope my mother beats my ex in November.