By Preston Bellini | City of MacArthur, Cameron County

High school boys are naturally smelly with the increase of hormones, etc.

Imagine having to share two showers with 35 other high school boys.

That is the reality the citizens from MacArthur are living with, while their neighboring city, Nelson, has seven open showers.

Citizens are not allowed to wake up before 6:40a.m., causing the bathroom to become overcrowded quickly and many are not able to shower before breakfast in MacArthur. In addition, MacArthur has the earlier breakfast at 7a.m. giving only a 20-minute period to dress, shower, brush your teeth, etc.; therefore infuriating the citizens of MacArthur even more.

The shower disputes have proven essential to almost all MacArthur candidates and their campaigns. Taking a walk through the second floor of Johnson Hall, campaign materials with slogans such as, “Asserting dominance, one shower at a time,” “Nelson – The lesser MacArthur” and “#RiseofMacArthur”.

At the City Caucus last night, MacArthur candidate for Senator, Max Presto, among other candidates, promised to fight for MacArthur on the state level to aid in equality among the showers.

While this issue may seem mundane to the rest of the Badger Boys State citizens, this issue holds heavy in every citizens from MacArthur.

At last nights County Convention, all Nationalist MacArthur Delegates supported the idea of maintaining or raising the county budget for infrastructure to ensure that bathrooms and showers are kept.

Disputes and tensions between the two cities are only rising and increasing with possibly no compromise in sight. Hopefully, with the city and county elections in Cameron County tonight, this issue can be resolved with a compromise that satisfies both Nelson and MacArthur.