Running For Governor of Georgia (Sakartvelo)
(Adapted  by Advocate Kakhaber Rodinadze in 2011)


A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great state of Georgia (Sakartvelo) to run against Mr. Micheil Saakashvili and Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili as a candidate. I somehow felt that my chances for winning the election were much greater than those of Mr. Micheil Saakashvili or Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili. During 44 years Mr. Micheil Saakashvili has been holding the post of a president or of a prime-minister of Georgia, during the same 44 years Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili has increased his possession from 5,5 milliard to more than 1000 milliard and became the first trilliarder in the world. I believed that I could won the election as it was easy to see by the newspapers that if ever those gentlemen had known what it was to have a good name, that time had gone by. It was clear that in these latter years they had become familiar with all sorts of shameful crimes.


There was one thing, however, that was very unpleasant for me. I heard people mention my name together with those of the other two candidates who had such discredited themselves by their shameful deeds. I grew more and more disturbed. At last I wrote my grandmother asking her for advice.


Soon I got her answer. She wrote in her letter that I had never in my life done anything to be ashamed of. She advised me to read the newspapers and to look at the candidates I had to run against. She asked me to think whether I could agree to lower myself to their level and run against them in the election.