Election Results Are In

You would think I’d be used to it by now. Most of my candidates didn’t win. I converted the Republican Party as a young adult. I was the son of Democratic parents, in a Democratic neighborhood, in a Democratic city, in a Democratic state, during a Democratic administration. Chicago was and is a one-party town. People looked at me as if I were an alien. Maybe I just like an underdog.

I traveled an odd road for a Republican. I listened to my parents and their friends talk about union politics constantly when I was a kid. My dad ran for firefighters union office a couple of times. I volunteered in the campaign in a mayoral election. I have attended strike rally’s and walked a union picket line. And I have even walked in a protest march with Reverend Jesse Jackson.

But my capitalist tendencies and the Reagan Revolution won me over. And I think I eventually won my parents over to the Republican side—mostly.