I try not to think about this too much, it can drive a person crazy
I know what you mean. Thinking about it too much also makes me so angry that I'm afraid I'm going to give myself a stroke or somethin'. LOL.
I agree with what you are saying, however, I wonder if a lack of a two-party system may have contributed to this incident. Local elections in VA are technically non-partisan. Meyera Oberndorf (VA Beach mayor, very unpopular) should have been gone years ago. She skates by with 35% of the vote because 2 or 3 anti-Oberndorf candidates split the GOP vote, and there are no runoffs. She and her city council have ran Va Beach into the ground (they almost lost NAS Oceana), and my family and I left because of the exploding drug gang problem that nothing was being done about.