Comments on: Election Choices

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 06:12:31 +0000

You still have some Democrats over in Escambia County, but they don’t bother to run in Okaloosa.

Hell, even my local libertoonian newspaper got their knickers in a twist over what the Repubs are trying to do to the court system. They hate it that there are limits on their power.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:29:48 +0000

I’ll vote for the Democrat for Congresscritter because he is the best of a bad lot.

yeah, i know what you mean, though i’m considering essentially voting ‘none of the above’ in that race. i’m voting against all the amendments, and and now that you’ve confirmed my suspicion on this score, i’ll definitely be voting to keep the supreme court as is.

for the rest, greens and socialists and any democrat who looks like they might be a member of the democratic wing of the democratic party.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:43:10 +0000

The constitutional amendments almost all dealt with the property taxes that finance local governments which are already in trouble because of lower assessed value of property. They are trying to centralize all of the power in state government. They are also trying to politicize the judiciary while preventing it from acting as a check on legislative excess. Add in their attempt to steal money from local school districts with vouchers, and you have a picture of state assault on local control of any portion of government power.

It is all part of being ‘business friendly’.

I don’t vote for Republicans, even if they say they are Democrats, which is common around here.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:41:04 +0000

On my ballot, all of the propositions were either to remove dead wood from the city charter or to offer bonds for things we sorely need… cops and firefighters, parks and maintenance, libraries, schools and repairs, and maintenance of the waterways that keep our assets from washing away, etc. There are certainly plenty of grumpy old men to say “get off my lawn” when bonds are offered for anything other than a new sports arena (three, I believe, in the last 20 years); I figure there had better be some sane folks to direct some money to stuff we really need.

As you probably anticipated, I voted almost straight-‘D’ … “almost” because there were a few dozen down-ballot races that had no Democrats running and a GOPer and a Green running; I voted for the Green on those just to annoy the inevitable winner.