"I don't do Zombie Facebook."

C'mon....

Really?

Newly-elected Idaho Representative Mark Patterson has better things to do than wrestle in the halls of the State Capitol with a poltical zombie.

No offense to Mr. Steve Berch, the zombie-fellow who lost the seat to Patterson on November 6th, but please realize, you are politically dead.

The campaign is over and Mark Patterson won.

Losing a seat in that district is not a bad thing - you can always run again. District 15's voters give a fresh new look at their elected representatives and senator every two years.

And reporters at the Capitol? C'mon, you've got much better things to do with your time than listen to the guttural groans of a Dawn of the Dead political corpse, don't you?

I'm not familiar with Mr. Patterson's stories - I'm sure though that if he blew it and said something stupid, that he won't do it again. Just a hunch, but I bet it's a good one.

And I don't know Mr. Berch's attack points, either. Touting "I don't do Facebook" comments by his opponent, all the while zombie-smacking him down, as if it will produce a post-defeat victory? He needs to just take the loss, close down his Press Release factory and get back to helping in any productive non-zombie way that he can.

I don't know either candidate personally, but I know the district personally - having campaigned for myself in it several times and for other candidates since 1991. The people of District 15 want to see a leader not a non-dead election zombie.

They elected a leader.

Yet they also got a zombie-like ex-candidate who refuses to climb into his political crypt, dated Nov 6th, 2012.

So, let's just stop the reporting on Mr. Berch.

Mr. Berch, go back to the hive - you're not going to be seated in the House of Representatives, no matter what decibel level you hit.

Mr. Patterson, go do your work.

Den

PS: I'm wondering, though, if I should start looking over my shoulder, listening to the quiet groanings of someone in a muffled voice following behind me, saying, "More brains, more brains..." Tee hee.

Comments

[Dennis Mansfield]

Dude, you lost...again. There's no harm in that fact. I chuckled when I read your comments. You're probably right. My experience in a legislative loss may not be what yours is; and i stand ready to be corrected at any time - by you or anyone else. But it just might help you to Google "this blogger". Thanks for running for office. It's hard to run and lose, so don't let your personal sadness detract from the truth that the people of Idaho are not easily hoodwinked.

[Steve Berch]

At least this blogger admits he doesn't know what he's talking about.

"I'm not familiar with Mr. Patterson's stories . ."

"I don't know Mr. Berch's attack point . . "

"I don't know either candiate personally . . ."

But why bother to learn the facts about people and the issues before forming opinions when you can simply reach back to one's grade school days and simply call people names. How mature.

[fortboise]

It's a cute little theme for you, and I agree that Berch needs to focus his efforts on the next campaign rather than the last one, but you're pretty quick to dismiss Mr. Patterson's "issues" with misrepresenting himself. Was it all Lucas Baumbach's malfeasance, or was the campaign as a whole lacking in honesty, integrity and adult supervision?

Patterson can make all the questions go away if he does a good job. But I'm getting tired of our state's legislature being amateur hour all the time.