
Until today, my favorite instance of political eavesdropping occurred almost 6-years ago, at the Farmer’s Market Restaurant. Rufus Edmisten was sitting next to my table, with a woman I presumed to be his wife – she was middle-aged and wearing a holiday sweater. She was going off on a tangent about Representative Deborah Ross with a theme of “I mean, who does she think she IS?”. Fun stuff but that was nowhere near the entertainment level of my lunch today at the Oakwood Cafe, where former Traffic Reporter Mark Roberts was seated nearby and strategizing about running, as a Republican, against Brad Miller. By doing so, he might be face Bernie Reeves in a Republican primary, something Roberts and an unrecognized political adviser discussed at length. Neither Roberts, nor his adviser, felt Reeves had much of a chance. Adviser: “People don’t know who Bernie Reeves is. I’ve lived here since 1992 and I don’t know who he is. He has his magazine that has a small readership and not all of the people who read the magazine read his column.” But Roberts did seem to recognize one thing about Reeves: “He’s considered a little crazy, isn’t he? He was one of the proponents of the theory that Michael Peterson’s wife was killed by an owl! I saw the footage of that crime scene and a person MUCH larger than she bludgeoned her to death.” Well, yes people do think Bernie Reeves is crazy but we look forward to his running for office. We’ve heard unsubstantiated stories about Reeves’ volatility erupting into golf course violence but those are just rumors. I repeat: those are just rumors. We’d like to see those rumors investigated and reported properly because Reeves deserves the chance to address them and good rumors deserve the chance to become good news items. There was also discussion of Carter Wrenn: Adviser: “Carter is out of money and getting to get back in the consulting game, so that’s 20% to him.” By which I assume they mean 20% of Reeves’ campaign funds would go into Wrenn’s pocket. There was more discussion about whether being a yankee would be a problem for Roberts in the outlying counties, Yes!, and whether Roberts’ boss at Crossroads Ford would keep him employed until the election. Roberts seemed pretty optimistic: “I think he will, he’s an R.”
I would like to be a political adviser someday. I’d advise people that if they want confidentiality, it is best to order takeout. I would remind them discretion is the better part of valor. Lastly, I would suggest that if my candidate was to run against a crazy narcissist blowhard in the primary, he should drag that man through the mud for the entertainment of the electorate.
It may be premature but I would like to announce that Mark Roberts is considering a run for office.
P.S. A Google image search for Mark Roberts delivers mostly images of (an apparently very prolific) streaker and Mr. Gay UK. That should make the election more interesting.
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