I couldn’t do a thing about the destruction of the East Wing of the White House so I scrubbed and cleaned and made my own better today. And then read up some more on the candidates on the ballot.

The guy who’s been the property tax assessor for 30 years finally retired at 84, triggering a special election.

Do we vote for the “only I can fix it” firebrand with no relevant background nor expertise but lots and lots of glossy fliers in the mail? For County Assessor. Since when is that such a big expensive race.

Oh wait.

Or the experienced lawyer who knows this subject inside and out and took the second in command job when the old guy was fading, who then had a man promoted over her as “acting commissioner” who’s running too now while she’s the one actually running the 250-person office and updating the systems per the local reporters. She’s taken on the big tech companies who’ve been snapping up buildings in a big land race between themselves and then fighting their property assessments by suing over billions of dollars at the same time that Proposition 13 from the 1970’s has already shifted most of that tax burden off corporations and onto homeowners. And now the richest companies in the country want to pay less. She’s on it.

Just where does all the money for all those glossy fliers for one person coming from nowhere who knows nothing about the job come from?

We have to pay attention to the local races.