This Week in Statehouse Action: Bad Habits edition

Virginia fundraising, North Carolina maps, Wisconsin garbage, and a new governor in Louisiana

This is a special time of year.

I mean, it’s spooky season, yes. Also fall. And for some of us, it’s state fair season. Which are all things I love.

But it’s also election season, which I also love, except that it stresses me out quite a lot, which I don’t love so much.

I’m a grown-ass person, so I try to manage my stress effectively through stuff like exercise, getting enough sleep, petting my cat, eating properly … 

But I’m also a human person, so not all of my coping mechanisms are healthy. Sometimes I’ll overexercise, or I’ll forget to eat, like, at all, let alone something healthy. Sometimes stress keeps me up, so the sleep thing gets tough. Relatedly, my caffeine intake … ah, increases this time of year.

Yeah, I know – extremely not great. But with life-affecting elections on the ballot every single year, it’s pretty tough for me not to fret about how those races are going to go and how certain outcomes could bring misery to lots and lots of people.

Which brings us to item number one…