Just A Couple Of Quick Notes About The Weekend

    Activity was pretty slow in Lubbock this past weekend, without a whole lot going on.

    The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is to be commended for conducting its first-ever candidate seminar intended for those who are thinking about running for office and/or those who want to help candidates.

    Morris Wilkes of the Wilkes Co. and Dr. Cindy Rugeley led the six-hour course and provided those in attendance, about two dozen folks, with some information about what potential candidates need to consider before making their political decisions.

    The lunch speakers were former Lubbock Mayor David Langston and former Lubbock County Judge Don McBeath. Both men shed light on the aspects of winning and losing races.

    Mike Stephens, a well known pollster and an owner of Action Printing in Lubbock, explained the ins and outs of polling and how candidates can focus their campaigns in such a way as to get the biggest bang for their money.

    All in all it was an enlightening and well spent afternoon.

    In the sports world, the Harley Honey and I attended the Texas Tech basketball game where the Raiders defeated Oregon State 64-60. The interesting thing to come out of that is how the men’s basketball team is going to count attendance.

    Under Bob Knight, the Raiders only counted actual people in the stands for their official attendance. Now, though, it appears that the men’s team is going to count attendance just like the women’s team does—tickets sold, not butts in seats.

    I say that because, while there were fewer than 1,000 (maybe even 500) people in the arena yesterday, the AJ reported attendance at 7,860 people at the game!