It is strange to think that the marquee races this year are for Treasurer and Auditor. It is strange to think that these are even elective office, but they are so let’s take a look, shall we?
To me this comes down to whether Suspenders is even going to put up a fight. As of the last reporting deadline he had about twenty bucks on him and he was looking longingly at a Giacomo’s in Green Tree Plaza, so who knows where he stands now.
Meanwhile Mayrack is plugged into all the right networks and used them to cruise to an 85% primary win over Ken Matlusky. Wait… what? Are you freaking kidding me? But I was just about to say something terribly condescending about Matlusky and now find out that he got …45% of the primary vote? That does not compute.
Anyway, now is when I add that Matlusky is a nice guy who should not interpret that vote total as an endorsement to run for something in the future. Because, after all, you can’t write about Ken Matlusky without saying he is a nice guy and then adding something condescending.
So does that primary result tell us something? Not really. Suspenders will run on his record of not auditing things until an audit is completely superfluous.
Mayrack will run on being smart and perfect for the job. She has the registration edge, while Suspenders has the cumber-bun. I mean incumbency. I think this is very nearly a toss-up, but give the edge right now to Mayrack until Suspenders either raises some money or Mayrack says something outrageously racist. For the record I’m not holding my breath while I wait for either of those things to happen.