Hey y'all! I promised a few weeks ago that the next blog entry would be about the election between Brown and Ederson, and that it would be important. So here it is.
Alan Brown had been makng a name for himself in Walker Creek for a while by '88. He was older, about 35 or 40 at the time. He'd been a member of the town council since before I was paying attention to politics. Always seemed competent, but not much of a people person if you know what I mean. Ran a ton of ads on TV, worked with major organizations, the whole deal. Ederson on the other hand was a bit...different. Ederson was in his 20's when he ran. He was just a normal guy who started doing some volunteer work and becoming a community leader in his own right. A real social guy and the opposite of Brown, to say the least. People liked him, he helped them, overall seemed to me like the right choice (even though his actual political plans weren't too good in my opinion). Anyway, he decided to run after a few years of that because he had enough of the corruption and shitty leadership from Walker Creek since the 70's. It was honestly a surprise to me that Ederson lost - I figured that after the hardship of town bankruptcy (which the council did nothing to fix), that the people would reject a member of the worthless council and let Ederson take the reigns. At the end of the day though, looks like the actual rulers of the county didn't let that happen. They wanted him gone. The bad leadership seemed to be the public reason for Ederson's campaign but the truth was...well...it was related to this mystery like everything else in the whole damn county. Everything ties back to it somehow. I suspect that they rigged it. Or maybe Brown's ad spending actually managed to get him to win fair and square. Either way, it's done now. What it seems like is that Ederson joined the rebellion. He was with the same people that hijacked the broadcast station. The "infection" he talked about wasn't just corruption and shitty politicians. He knew something a lot deeper. Something that I didn't know until only a month ago even after living there for the first 40 years of my life. It's surreal to think about it. All of that stuff under the surface, right in front of us. Even an innocuous mayoral election was about so much more and we didn't even know. Ederson talked a lot in his speeches about an infection in the town, that the people in charge didn't have our best interests in mind, how they had to take the town back, that we didn't know what their plan really entailed, and that they had spread their influence further than we could ever imagine. It all seemed pretty normal when talking about a corrupt government but with the lens of what we know now, it seems a lot more serious. He was shouting into the wind and nobody knew just how right he was. After it was over, they said that Ederson conceded and skipped town, looking for greener pastures. Didn't seem too impossible to me, so I went with it like everyone else. Looks like that wasn't true. Such a shame he didn't win. The situation right now might be different somehow. Not just this small group of investigators. But...maybe we can continue what he started. Who knows? - Trevor
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