Digging up Little Peanut (Jack Carter)

[NVMojo]

Friday, February 24, 2006

Your father always seems larger than life. I recall listening to my old man as he gave a speech on community economics to a local men’s club and thinking that someday I wanted to be just like him – to hold a group of similarly attired businessmen, decked out in club ties and poplin suits, in rapt attention. But time moved on and I had to cut my own swath in life, leaving those youthful dreams to dissipate in the old country club hall like early morning fog in the face of summer sun.

Today there’s a new wind blowing in Nevada – a zephyr of hot air stirring up the dust devils from State Line to Reno, a chinook of blast furnace heat hooking the pebbles by the interstates and tossing the tumble weeds into the air along the by ways and highways from Las Vegas to Lake Tahoe, and a howling williwaw of words blowing the pomaded hair on the gamblers back and short skirts of the street walkers up all along the gaudy neon strips and the less luminous and far less desirable side streets in the heartlands of America’s easy pleasure palaces.

Jack Carter, Jimmy Carter’s son, has decided, after long discussions and a particularly deep and tortured thought process, to run for US Senator from Nevada, opposing John Ensign, a Republican, who will be seeking his second term. Carter has resided in Nevada since 2003, when he moved to the "All For Our Country" state from Bermuda, where he operated Carter Global, some sort of private investment company which is said to have netted him plenty in offshore monies, which he, in turn, invested wisely and which are now propelling him into the heart of America’s capital of instant gratification and on a quest for the US Senate, and who can say, to highest office in the land.

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