Waiting

When I was in the Army, there was a saying that it was better to be on a list and waiting rather than waiting on a list.  The list in question was the annual promotion list — and if your name was on it — then it was just a matter of time before your sequence number came up and you were promoted.  It was far worse to be waiting for the list and hoping that your name would be on it.  The waiting, as Tom Petty once crooned, was the hardest part.

Well in the Jeff Beatty camp, we’re not so much waiting to get on the ballot as we’re there — with 15,813 certified signatures at the Secretary of State’s office. (And there is more where that came from.)  That speaks volumes as to Jeff’s grassroots appeal among Republican and Independent voters. 

That’s a whole lot better than waiting to see if you actually have the signatures to get on the ballot — that would certainly ruin a perfectly good weekend.

Regardless, the waiting comes to an end in about 100 hours.