First in a series.
Espying a Republican strolling across Culver City is as rare of a treat as visiting a pet dinosaur at the zoo or watching a bikini’d girl sauntering down Anchorage’s main street on Christmas Eve.
One of those images might have danced across your mind this morning if you had seen Steve Rose, the community’s ultimate Republican, angling toward a voting booth.
Especially on this Election Day, Republicans cast votes for reasons entirely foreign to liberal voters.
The CEO and president of the Chamber of Commerce disclosed, for example, that he only voted for one human being – judges, members of Congress, U.S. senator and others aside.
Mr. Rose declined to identify the lucky homo sapiens.
Instead, the longtime owner of Culver City’s most recognizable face and unadorned pate preferred to emphasize two other salient facts.
What does it feel like to belong to the tiny colony of GOP voters o the loudest election day in modern times?
“As a first-generation American,” Mr. Rose said, “it is my civic duty to be involved in the selection of our representative form of government,” he said.
As one of California’s tiniest minorities, a GOP’er, is his vote wasted.
Quickly Mr. Rose flagged the thought. “No,” he said. “It is our duty to participate in the American way of life.”
(To be continued)
