How people in Tucson will vote next week...in the news

[travspence]

I am now going to tell people in Tucson how they must vote next week on the ballot initiatives. All you Tucsonans pay attention! Feel free to print this and take it to the polls with you.

Comments

[aardvark_gumbo]

Thanks so much. I guess I should do this for readers who live in Missouri now. I left my voter guide at work, so I'll have to wait till tomorrow.

Oh, and about voting straight Democrat: I get so damn depressed when I hear otherwise intelligent people saying that "I don't care what party someone is in, I vote for the person." This would be a good strategy if the whole FUCKING POLITICAL SYSTEM weren't set up around party affiliation. It doesn't matter whether Joe Blow is a good guy or not; if he's a Republican, he helps provide a Republican majority that puts Republicans in charge of committees and ensures that only issues that Republicans want investigated get investigated, and that only bills Republicans want passed get onto the Senate or House floor, and so on and so on. You have to vote for the party, unless you seriously don't see a difference in the overall philosophies of the two parties. In which case, you're a moron and shouldn't vote.

[travspence]

Amen, brother!

Re: You probably knew I'd weigh in on this

[travspence]

Yeah, I suspected you would and I was glad you did

Re: You probably knew I'd weigh in on this

[vovat]

You could say we should keep it as it is in hopes of turning more people off of meat, but to me that'd be like arguing that we should allow torture of prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay to continue so that more people will turn against Bush's War on Terror.

Or the proposal to reinstitute the draft so that Congress would be less likely to declare war.

[fermi_daza]

HA! Thanks for making it so easy for me! YOU ROCK!!!!

[travspence]

Thank you. Please note though that I did get off the fence about the farm animal act. I'm going to vote for it.

[lilitou]

I'm all in favor of the humane treatment of food animals, partially because I love animals and partially because animals raised in humane conditions are probably a lot healthier than otherwise. That said, knowing how these things tend to work, that last proposition is probably so poorly worded and narrow as to be entirely useless anyway.

This post is a really great idea.

[travspence]

See my response to frippy above.

This proposition really is not asking for a lot. I am going to vote for it after all.

[dogofthefuture]

I thought California had a lot of propositions this year, but it looks like Arizona has us beat.

[travspence]

Two reasons for that, I think.

1. Since it is an election year the state legistlature didn't want to piss anyone off by actually, you know, doing anything so they refered a buttload of stuff to the voters.

2. The political climate is becoming more like California, Home of the 1,000,000 Propositions, as more and more Californians move here. Thus we end up with ballot clogging nonsense like that joke to randomly give one voter a million dollars.

Not that California would ever do anything that silly. :-)