OKAY Mahonri...I'm going! Yeesh!
Ok, seriously, I'll go in a minute
I'm waiting on a friend, who I reminded, who is getting ready, because she has no car, and she is riding with me. SEE I am voting AND doing a good deed!
Just Do it! VOTE!
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No, I will NOT tell you I voted because I am NOT voting this time. I cannot find a single candidate that I CAN in good conscience vote for.
Here in Alabama, the candidates seem to have entirely forgotten that there is an amendment to the US constitution specifically barring a religious test for office. Here every single candidate that I have heard has made a point to tout how they are a "Values Candidate" and one nominee for the Alabama Supreme Court even went so far as to advertise that her faith helps her determine her judgments!!! I can guarantee that if a Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim candidate had said such a thing, the outpouring of criticism would have guaranteed their defeat. (Think of the hysteria over Shari law recently!) So there is plainly a de facto religious test in this state and I cannot vote for any candidate without that vote condoning what they are doing here!
Then there is the candidate for governor who campaigns on this state's sovereignty--which is what we fought an entire Civil War about--yet here he is shouting from the rooftops about how HE believes that state sovereignty takes precedence over the laws passed in Washington, specifically the new health care law.
I feel like I have been disenfranchised by their campaign rhetoric. The sad part is that is probably their intention. So here I sit between a rock and a hard place, unable to cast a ballot because they are ALL breaking the spirit of the constitution, if not the actual law. And frankly, their attitude scares the $hit out of me! I am starting to find myself less quick to tell people I am not a Christian, like somehow that acknowledgment is going to come back to bite me one day. And to think there was a time, years back, when all I worried about was being outed as gay!
Rusty
No, I will NOT tell you I voted because I am NOT voting this time. I cannot find a single candidate that I CAN in good conscience vote for.
Here in Alabama, the candidates seem to have entirely forgotten that there is an amendment to the US constitution specifically barring a religious test for office. Here every single candidate that I have heard has made a point to tout how they are a "Values Candidate" and one nominee for the Alabama Supreme Court even went so far as to advertise that her faith helps her determine her judgments!!! I can guarantee that if a Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim candidate had said such a thing, the outpouring of criticism would have guaranteed their defeat. (Think of the hysteria over Shari law recently!) So there is plainly a de facto religious test in this state and I cannot vote for any candidate without that vote condoning what they are doing here!
Then there is the candidate for governor who campaigns on this state's sovereignty--which is what we fought an entire Civil War about--yet here he is shouting from the rooftops about how HE believes that state sovereignty takes precedence over the laws passed in Washington, specifically the new health care law.
I feel like I have been disenfranchised by their campaign rhetoric. The sad part is that is probably their intention. So here I sit between a rock and a hard place, unable to cast a ballot because they are ALL breaking the spirit of the constitution, if not the actual law. And frankly, their attitude scares the $hit out of me! I am starting to find myself less quick to tell people I am not a Christian, like somehow that acknowledgment is going to come back to bite me one day. And to think there was a time, years back, when all I worried about was being outed as gay!
Rusty
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Rusty be glad you are not in California LOL
I voted, sent in the mail ballot thing on Saturday. I was lucky because in my English class we went over all the Props and kinda tore them apart and put them in "lamans terms" so I had a clearer idea of what I was voting for. It's really hard to understand the propsitions as they are written! I feel bad for those who do not have english as a fluent language
But I did vote!
I voted, sent in the mail ballot thing on Saturday. I was lucky because in my English class we went over all the Props and kinda tore them apart and put them in "lamans terms" so I had a clearer idea of what I was voting for. It's really hard to understand the propsitions as they are written! I feel bad for those who do not have english as a fluent language
But I did vote!
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No, I will NOT tell you I voted because I am NOT voting this time. I cannot find a single candidate that I CAN in good conscience vote for.
Here in Alabama, the candidates seem to have entirely forgotten that there is an amendment to the US constitution specifically barring a religious test for office. Here every single candidate that I have heard has made a point to tout how they are a "Values Candidate" and one nominee for the Alabama Supreme Court even went so far as to advertise that her faith helps her determine her judgments!!! I can guarantee that if a Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim candidate had said such a thing, the outpouring of criticism would have guaranteed their defeat. (Think of the hysteria over Shari law recently!) So there is plainly a de facto religious test in this state and I cannot vote for any candidate without that vote condoning what they are doing here!
Then there is the candidate for governor who campaigns on this state's sovereignty--which is what we fought an entire Civil War about--yet here he is shouting from the rooftops about how HE believes that state sovereignty takes precedence over the laws passed in Washington, specifically the new health care law.
I feel like I have been disenfranchised by their campaign rhetoric. The sad part is that is probably their intention. So here I sit between a rock and a hard place, unable to cast a ballot because they are ALL breaking the spirit of the constitution, if not the actual law. And frankly, their attitude scares the $hit out of me! I am starting to find myself less quick to tell people I am not a Christian, like somehow that acknowledgment is going to come back to bite me one day. And to think there was a time, years back, when all I worried about was being outed as gay!
Rusty
An alternative is to go in and vote all write-ins; even yourself.
No, I will NOT tell you I voted because I am NOT voting this time. I cannot find a single candidate that I CAN in good conscience vote for.
Here in Alabama, the candidates seem to have entirely forgotten that there is an amendment to the US constitution specifically barring a religious test for office. Here every single candidate that I have heard has made a point to tout how they are a "Values Candidate" and one nominee for the Alabama Supreme Court even went so far as to advertise that her faith helps her determine her judgments!!! I can guarantee that if a Jewish, Buddhist, Mormon or Muslim candidate had said such a thing, the outpouring of criticism would have guaranteed their defeat. (Think of the hysteria over Shari law recently!) So there is plainly a de facto religious test in this state and I cannot vote for any candidate without that vote condoning what they are doing here!
Then there is the candidate for governor who campaigns on this state's sovereignty--which is what we fought an entire Civil War about--yet here he is shouting from the rooftops about how HE believes that state sovereignty takes precedence over the laws passed in Washington, specifically the new health care law.
I feel like I have been disenfranchised by their campaign rhetoric. The sad part is that is probably their intention. So here I sit between a rock and a hard place, unable to cast a ballot because they are ALL breaking the spirit of the constitution, if not the actual law. And frankly, their attitude scares the $hit out of me! I am starting to find myself less quick to tell people I am not a Christian, like somehow that acknowledgment is going to come back to bite me one day. And to think there was a time, years back, when all I worried about was being outed as gay!
Rusty
An alternative is to go in and vote all write-ins; even yourself.
I'm election judging from 4-8 tonight so will be voting then.
I love to see people come to vote - apathy is our biggest enemy.
I love to see people come to vote - apathy is our biggest enemy.
I dont ever vote..
Cause then they get your info and call you in for jury duty..
Cause then they get your info and call you in for jury duty..
speaking of writing yourself in! I was going to write Micky Mouse for California gov. lol
the commercials make me not want to vote for anybody except Micky! Or maybe my chicken Joon.. She would make a great govener, kinda like hitler lol (sarcasm about great btw Joon is a dang near heartless lead hen) hehe
I got paid like... 2 bucks for Jury Duty LOL
I got paid like... 2 bucks for Jury Duty LOL
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I would expect someone as opinionated(no offense intended
) as you to VOICE that opinion! I'm kinda shocked! You seriously NEVER vote? WOW...that is truly weird girl!
Voted!!!
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Vote for the CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote for the CHICKEN!!!!!!!!!!!
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