When most of one's career centers around public service, helping others in dealing with those in public service, advising some to aspire to, or stay in it, no reader should be surprised by today's subject.

My plan, before watching several reprises of a news report on my fave local news station, NY1, involved a chat around the wonders of getting a round ball through a circular rim. The NY1 report suggested most voters will remain at home. The thought of  Tuesday (June 28) coming or going with most eligible to exercise their most sacred obligation (and right) in this democracy just gnawed at me.

No talk of candidates here but throughout most of NYC and parts of Long Island and Westchester, and even some points north of that, eligible voters can exercise that right in primary elections that may in fact determine who represents them in Congress.

In my ebook, The Public Ought To Know, I devote an entire chapter to voting. I wrote then (and in probably some speeches I wrote for others), “Voting represents one of the ways we participate in civic life and public affairs.”

So if you live in one of those places, please plan to exercise this right and talk it up to others.

No one needs to know the who or even chat about the who.  Just focus on this one vital concept: the act of voting stands for something.

So do you know what you plan to do on Tuesday?