The End of the Primary Season

If you're in Missouri, and you haven't voted today, please make sure you do so. It'a a big ballot today in Kansas City, with lots of questions and candidates. Here are a few points to keep in mind on your way to the ballot:

* Wheeler has shown himself to be the corrupt, unpleasant bastard I told you he is. Vote for Sanders.

* Jolie Justus has run a classy campaign - Klumb's backers went negative after whining about those of us who looked at his track record and found it disturbing.

* Scott Burnett has run his race with the same competence and kindness that typifies his public service. His opponent - who the Star wants in because of a blind anti-incombent bias - has been running the same old nasty crap that has typified county government for years. Scott is the fresh air, not his opponent.

* Term limits are a simple-minded, anti-democratic method of shifting power away from voters and to the power-brokers. Vote against them.

* The Star has been a complete disappointment, both in its endorsements and in its pusillanimous noncoverage of some of the more interesting campaign hijinks of the season, such as the coercion surrounding Messerli's position on the Wheeler-Sanders race, and on the Freedom, Inc.'s sale of its endorsement.

* Vote for the State Parks tax.