The Return of the Un-electables

We enjoy when candidates announce but don’t have a website, etc., but it is ‘coming soon’ - when is soon.

Traffic, Grown Kids, and the Ghosts of Elections Past …

So apparently Trista Gomez is unhappy with Picon. We’ll just go ahead and say it — we’re fine with that. Now, at a meeting last night, Gomez explained why she moved: too much traffic, wanted to be closer to her kids… except, small detail, her kids are grown. Maybe without traffic her grown children will drive more often to her new home in Distrcit 3.

But here’s the real kicker — if Gomez had actually won that District 4 Commissioner election she couldn’t have packed up. You know, she’d have to stay in District 4. Would she have spent four years being miserable, sighing about “all that disgusting traffic” while missing her adult children? Come on, Trista. You don’t get to campaign for a district and then act like it’s unlivable after you’re not sworn in.

And just when we thought the night couldn’t get more absurd, in strolls “Trashed by Taylor” himself — Mike Ginsberg — announcing he’s running for Ward 2. Yes, the very seat Naomi Duerr is terming out of. Somewhere, the political gods are having a laugh.

But what did Ginsberg highlight as his big pitch? Rancharrah? Lakeridge Tennis Club development? Reno Avenue? Lakeridge Golf Course/Duncan Golf Management? Maybe traffic at the Mt. Rose Junction? Nope. He talked about his time on the parks department. Because that’s what voters really want in 2026 — a guy who can make sure the swing sets are level and the sprinklers turn on at 6 a.m. We question if Ginsberg even knows what is going on in Ward 2. Does this mean we have to go through months of those awful yard signs that look like a license plate?

Here’s the truth: Ginsberg has about as much chance of beating ‘rumored candidate’ J.D. Drakulich as Trista does of convincing anyone traffic was the deal-breaker. Republicans keep dusting off the same old candidates who’ve already lost, sending them out there again like it’s political karaoke night. Spoiler alert: the song doesn’t sound any better the fifth time around.

If this is the GOP’s big strategy — recycling candidates who couldn’t win the first time — we’ll keep laughing straight through Election Day.