The Politics Thread

[Dalton]

Just print this out and bring it with you to the polls.

Prop 19- Legalizes Pot- Vote YES.  Yes.  A thousand times yes.  Not a big pot guy but to waste another second enforcing any kind of pot law is the height of absurdity.

Prop 20- Redistricting- Absolutely YES.  The two parties have a strangle hold on this state due to years of gerrymandering.  Break the hold by voting yes.

Prop 21- A new tax.  That's all you need to know.  Vote NO.

Prop 22- Vote YES.  Keeps the scumbags in the CA legislature from stealing money from local governments.

Prop 23- YES.  Suspends Arnold's disaster of a Global Warming Bill from being enforced until the state is on more solid economic ground.

Vote NO on all other props.  

Governor-  Either leave this one blank for vote for Dale Ogden, the libertarian.  Jerry Brown is a well known nut and Meg Whitman is a hysterical, incompetent boob.

Senate- This is our chance to get rid of that awful Barbara Boxer.  Vote Carley Fiorina.

The other ones I couldn't care less about.

[DerickA]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Dalton]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah 'cause the state is doing SO WELL.

[Dobbin]

Fiorina was a nightmare who almost singlehandedly destroyed a huge company on the level of IBM. She's a horror of incompetence as a businessperson, much less her terrible political stances. She's criminally bad at the "qualification" she's running on. (I put in scare quotes because the idea of running government like a business is a flawed understanding of what a government, or a business, is.)

[Dalton]

Fiorina was a nightmare who almost singlehandedly destroyed a huge company on the level of IBM. She's a horror of incompetence as a businessperson, much less her terrible political stances. She's criminally bad at the "qualification" she's running on. (I put in scare quotes because the idea of running government like a business is a flawed understanding of what a government, or a business, is.)

Really?  Hm.  I've been impressed with her.  Boxer not so much.

[Dobbin]

Really?  Hm.  I've been impressed with her.  Boxer not so much.

You should watch the 60 MINUTES piece on her, when she left HP. She almost destroyed the company in a few short years.

[Dalton]

You should watch the 60 MINUTES piece on her, when she left HP. She almost destroyed the company in a few short years.

I'll check it out.

[BrianLynch]

I say vote for Jerry Brown.  He's better than Meg Whitman, and voting for a libertarian is like voting for a unicorn.

[Dobbin]

Jolene works for an agency that is highly embedded in HP. They are still recovering from her poor business decisions. (Not to mention the current stuff with their newly-ousted CEO and the SAP lawsuit with Oracle with the new guy.)

[ExpendablesFan]

I seriously think you're insane if you vote for a Republican senator after the last two years. It's like voting to double the unemployment rate.

[chrisb]

Can you count the ways that that awful Barbara Boxer has been awful?

[Wolfe]

Jerry Brown hasn't promised to lay me off as his first order of business. Vote him!

[Dalton]

I seriously think you're insane if you vote for a Republican senator after the last two years. It's like voting to double the unemployment rate.

I don't see party.

[Dalton]

I say vote for Jerry Brown.  He's better than Meg Whitman, and voting for a libertarian is like voting for a unicorn.

I respect Brown more than I do Whitman but I could never in a million years vote for him.  Someone just told me I'm throwing away my vote but I think I'd be throwing away my vote if I voted for someone I really didn't believe in.

[sean]

I don't see party.

Isn't that weak justification for voting for somebody that you know will vote strictly party line?

EDIT: sorry, maybe "weak" is too aggressive, I don't mean that to be starting a fight.  But it seems like Republicans see party, and ignoring that on principle makes sense but doesn't actually translate to them ignoring it.