Lesbian Mayor vs Conservative Opponent: A Small Towns Shocking Election Drama Unfolds

Election Time.

It was the night before the elections, usually no body bothered with elections in Praedsville and nothing changed as it was hard enough finding one person that was crazy enough to want to do a two year term as Mayor let alone find two but this year we had two contenders and one was a woman and a short spiky haired feminist, who some said was a lesbian!

That's why Praedsville city hall was pretty much full that night, hell I doubt the town had ever seen anything quite like it since the place was built back in 1897. Anyway there we were, me Royston Hanks, Mayor for the past two years, and brash newcomer Ms Sophie Di Marco who had this notion that Praedsville needed an east coast lesbian to drag us into the twentieth century.

See nothing ever seemed to happen in Praedsville, so when they thought there would be an election why most everyone got election fever and some even crammed into the town hall to hear what we had to stay.

"Sisters!" Sophie was saying in that aggressive East Coast way of hers, "We must stand up for our rights," she bellowed like a newfoundland fishwife "It's time to call time on male domination, the future is ours, Women of Maidstone County seize the moment, your destiny awaits," she paused and her ample bosom heaved, "Vote Women's liberation, vote DiMarco tomorrow!"

I was on next, hell I had to have my arm twisted to do the damned job the last time. the money you got for being Mayor was a joke and you had no power really, except since Sophia was stirring things up it came to light that neither Praedsville nor Maidstone county were ever properly incorporated in the state and the state is a Commonwealth anyway technically, and we never had the "Klondyke" law revoked in 1948 like the other places granted emergency powers so well as Sophia said we could have our own laws like equality laws so women got rights to half a guys wages just for stopping home and looking after his kids, and there wasn't a thing the state could do about it..

"Well, how do you follow that?" I asked, "I figure on carrying on much the same as always," I said and I sat down again.

"Really Mr Hanks," Sophie was on her feet again, "Are you sure you don't want women shackled to the kitchen sink or something similar?"

As far as I was concerned she could have the damned job.

I stood up again, "Ok, right," I said real loud, "If I'm elected every woman will have to be chained to the kitchen sink if thats what her husband wants or tied where the hell else her man decides, and she wont have any rights and she won't have no money of her own nor nothing," I said and I turned to Sophia and,"Satisfied?" I asked

"And what of single women?" Sophie asked, "You really are pathetic!"

"They'll have to register with me and I'll allocate them a man!" I announced.

Gee you should have seen those jaws drop, I was about to walk out when the cheering started, not just the guys but half the women were clapping, I didn't believe it, hell that Sophia must have really got up their noses.

She sort of stared, she could have been attractive if she got a diet and a haircut, well a wig maybe, the hair was too short already, maybe some plastic surgery and a sense of humour woud be good, ok she was ugly with a personality to match, but she had something, the sort of inner beauty you get in a Hippopotamus maybe, the grey suit with knee length skirt she wore certainly didn't do anything for her.

"I'm surprised you don't want them chained up naked as well," Sophia snorted, "You really are disgusting!"

"If that's what their man wants," I said, "I don't have no preference one way or the other,"
I sort of said jokingly, she really was too much, I never meant anything, I was joking, I just realised it was hight time I moved on, and Sophie had just handed me the excuse I needed so I could get out of being Mayor.

"Well Ladies and Gentleman!" old Walt Naylor who was acting as master of ceremonies announced, "There you have it, you got change a coming either you get's a Lady Mayor or you get old Roy again and I reckon he gone plain loco."

We was back the next night Tuesday, after the election, I spent the day with Miss Simpkins a scrawny little thing with no tits worth mentioning, she hardly ever said a word but just worked away from before I come in at ten till after I went home at three, Amy I think her name was, hell I always called her Miss Simpkins, plain as pikestaff she was, anyway we spent the time sorting things so as I could just hand over the keys to Sophie on Wednesday morning and just walk out the door.

"Miss Simpkins," I asked, "Whats all this about the town having it's own laws if we want," I said and she smiled up at me as she sat at the desk.

"Why Mr Hanks sir," she said like she was quoting a text book, "Yes sir, it was the gold rush years, the local townspeople applied for a variance and like a lots of other places they were grated emergency powers but because we never ever did invoke any new laws they never actually revoked it in 1948 when the places what had invoked new laws under the emergency powers had theirs revoked."

Gee, she certainly knew her stuff, and it was the longest conversation I had with her in the two years we worked together. "Why thanks Miss Simpkins," I said

"I'll miss you Mr Hanks," she said and smiled showing her small but perfectly clean teeth..

"Why, I'll miss you Miss Simpkins," I said, "But I'm sure you'll get on just fine with Miss Di Marco."

I nearly invited her over the bar for a good bye drink but she had a pile of letters to send so I just sneaked off.

Come election night there was a hell of a fuss over vote counting, they hadn't done any for years anyway, pretty soon they got the hang of it and put my votes in a tray and they had a tray for Sophie's votes, except there weren't hardly any votes for Sophie. She cried foul so loud you could have heard it in New York, but what foul? there was the right number of slips in the box, they all had counter-foils, she just weren't popular.

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