Littlepage directs his rage at ... you. You loser.

The professional hand-wringers were out in force in the wake of the March 22 election because more than two-thirds of registered voters sat it out. The Times-Union had a story two days later headlined “$3 million invested in Jacksonville mayoral election; 30 percent turnout.” On her radio show, Melissa Ross talked about the turnout in the hushed, slightly peeved tone you’d expect from a schoolteacher wondering why you aren’t living up to your potential. For his part, Ron Littlepage got angry. Those of you who didn’t vote, he declared, are losers. Let’s go to the parchment.

The election results are in, and the outcome is crystal clear: A big part of Jacksonville is made up of losers.
That's right - 364,218 of you should put a big "L" on your foreheads.
I just had to check my calendar to make sure it wasn’t 1999. I suspect Ron has just now seen that Smash Mouth video.
That's how many registered voters didn't vote. The turnout for the first round of the city elections was 29.25 percent. That's pathetic.
I kind of wish I hadn’t voted, because then I could convince myself I have contributed to Ron’s oldster outrage.
This election was critical. A new mayor and a reshaped City Council will come out of it.
Yet, seven out of 10 voters chose not to participate.
And don't give me that "voter fatigue" baloney.
I can understand voter fatigue in, say, Egypt, but our right to choose our leaders was secured generations ago.
Voter fatigue means voters are numbed by too many elections. Which has nothing to do with Egypt. And as for our long-ago secured right to vote.... What the hell is he talking about?
Jacksonville's losers just stomped on those patriots' graves.
I don't want to hear complaints about the direction of the city in the next four years. No phone calls, no emails, nada.
By the way, have you seen the redesigned Times-Union? Forget the new font, the thing is physically smaller. It could be called My First Newspaper (hat tip to Guy Smiley). But by all means, Ron, discourage reader participation.
If taxes are slashed and favored programs are cut, too bad.
Or if taxes aren't cut enough to suit you and you think government wastes money on things government has no business doing, ditto.
Losers had a chance to have their say and didn't take it.
Losing losers.
It's not like voting was a difficult thing to do. There were no bullets to dodge, no roving gangs to intimidate.
For those who couldn't get out on Election Day, there were two weeks of early voting at sites scattered across the city.
And there's always the absentee-ballot route to take.
But the losers stayed home in droves.
There were good candidates in the mayor's race. They had distinctly different visions for Jacksonville's future.
Bullshit. The candidates were OK, but their visions weren’t all that different. Governments are broke at all levels and there’s not much room to differ. Which is probably why a lot of voters decided it wasn’t worth the effort.
The same can be said for the City Council races so a lack of choice wasn't a reason not to vote.
And there was plenty of information on the candidates and about their stances on important issues.
So where do we go from here?

Write something other than enraged conventional wisdom? Oh, sorry, you were talking about the city, not your crappy column. Carry on, sir.
Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan will go at it for the next two months.
Sounds transgressive, but I doubt Hogan's friends down at First Baptist will approve.
So will the candidates in the runoff races for City Council and tax collector.
The most interesting thing to watch over the next several weeks will be where the supporters of Audrey Moran and Rick Mullaney end up in the mayor's race.
Many Republicans in the business community didn't like Hogan's anti-tax, anti-government message.
This grows increasingly divorced from reality. Care to cite any of these ‘many Republicans?’I didn’t think so. If there’s a Republican nearby, he should remind Ron that GOPers like anti-tax, anti-government messages. Maybe the T-U has one in a closet somewhere.
Will they put loyalty to party first and switch to Hogan?
Brown made it to the runoff because he got a better-than-expected turnout by African-Americans.
They hadn't turned out during early voting, but they showed up at the polls Tuesday.
This might be your angle here, Ron, instead of lapsing into self-righteousness and insulting your customers.
There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in Duval County. Will that help Brown?
Election Day this time around will be May 17. There will be opportunities to vote early as well.
How many voters will vote in the runoff - 10 percent?
If so, the winner gets to be the mayor of Loserville.
Good one.