I’ve lived in California for most of my adult life and so I don’t know . . . are all state primaries as crazy as ours? One news commentator referred to our upcoming gubernatorial primaries as “The Hunger Games” (a reference to a series of fictional battles for survival which are fought by teenagers.) Having helped raise teenagers, I didn’t quite make it through the first Hunger Games movie so I can’t comment. Does every state have 61 candidates running for governor who act like horny teenagers?

Wait. I guess the number is now 60 as the front runner (Mr. Swalwell) was forced out. However, he is still on the list. Maybe he’ll mount a revival.

This list contains: Twenty-four Democrats. twelve Republicans. one Libertarian. one Peace & Freedom person, and twenty-three No Party Preference party poopers. I’ll get to them later.

Roughly half of the candidates submitted Candidate Statements; the others did not. If voters want to find out about say, David Zickefoose or Barack D. Obama Shaw, they’ll have to do some research. I think I’ll pass. What a waste to go to all that work and then assume you might get a vote or two without going to any effort?

Now to those No Party Preference candidates: Two belong to parties that just aren’t qualified: the American Solidarity Party, a liberal leaning though decidedly Pro-Life group, and the Socialist Workers Party.

Then there are these folks:

He wants to “suffocate homelessness, assassinate unemployment and nuke crime.” Rightly dighty, dude. ‘Fraid you don’t have my vote.

LivingForGod is a lot more eloquent, isn’t he?

Like the pilot who “punches through the storm” so we can breathe again, he’s going to hand us a fire extinguisher so that we can put out the dumpster fire started by the “old” parties. Righteous Brother! I almost wish you were running for president!

On the other hand, this guy is downright scary:

A whole bunch of conspiracy theories packed into one real charmer. Yikes!

Thankfully the candidates for Lieutenant Governor seem quite sane.