So tomorrow is the Florida primary, and I'm looking forward to voting at the Ted Williams museum. In one race, however, I won't have much of a choice -- one of the school board candidates dropped out of the race after reporters learned of an embarrassing past. This candidate, who had just sent out a fundraising letter saying that he needed support so the "God guys" can win and who made headlines for insisting on christian prayers at school board meetings, was arrested in 1994 for indecent exposure. He apparently motioned for a man to approach him in a parking lot, and when the man did approach he found that Bates was masturbating in his car. When questioned, Bates said that the incident occurred during a dark time in his life when he was abusing pain medication and had lost his job, I believe. He also said that he thought the record had been expunged and he wouldn't have run if he knew it hadn't been. Well, it turns out that it should have been expunged, and there was an error in the police station! I guess you really can't escape your past.