My son, the Fenty dead-ender

[Anonymous]

Dorrie wrote:I've been wanting to share this story somewhere, and in light of posts today it seems like this is the place.

When my then 3-year-old started school last August, we walked every day and frequently passed lawn signs for the Mayoral campaign. Generally the Gray signs outnumbered the Fenty signs, but only slightly. He asked what "Mayor" was, and I tried to explain a bit. I also told him that the grown-ups would get to decide who the next Mayor would be.

After a few weeks of studying the signs, he told me that he wanted Mr. Fenty to be Mayor. I was a hardcore Gray supporter; my husband was a Fenty supporter who became a lukewarm Gray supporter after I outlined my position. After the primary, we gently told our son that Mr. Gray would now be Mayor, instead of Mr. Fenty. He seemed OK with that...


...until about two weeks ago, when he suddenly started asking again about Mr. Fenty. "I'm super-duper mad," he told me one day on the walk home from school. "I want Mr. Fenty to be Mayor, not Mr. Gray. When can Mr. Fenty be mayor again?" And now he's talking about how much he liked Mr. Fenty's signs, and how upset he is that Mr. Fenty is not our Mayor.

Tell your son, welcome to the Democratic party. This is only his first brush with defeat -- Dukakis 2012!!!

[Anonymous]

I share his frustration.