Comments | lady_mactrouser: Vote and switch

lady_mactrouser

Vote and switch

Jul 19, 2006 10:40

I went to vote in the Democratic primary yesterday - though I briefly contemplated voting in the Republican primary, just to do my part to keep Ralph Reed out of the race in November. Luckily, my vote wasn't needed on that score.

It's been a strange campaign season here, between the near-weekly court reversals on Georgia's bullshit voter ID law and ( Read more... )

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bear_left July 19 2006, 16:56:02 UTC

I see you had a similar surprise, as I was when I found out I now live in the 10th District rather than the 12th - and that the 9th & 10th have switched numbers for the 110th Congress. Meaning I'm going from a conversative, anti-gay Democrat to an actual Republican. Whee.

How I'd love to have John Lewis as my Rep. I assigned his memoir in my Sixties class a couple times; he is as much of a political hero exists in this country. As far as Cynthia McKinney, her voting record is certainly preferable to most Representatives... but yes, her running off the rails is just a bit too problematic.

lady_mactrouser July 20 2006, 00:36:40 UTC

Well, I'd feel better with McKinney than I would with a Republican as my representative; my condolences.

bear_left July 20 2006, 00:41:08 UTC

I'd absolutely take a semi-stable, loose cannon of a Progressive over a Georgia Republican. Any day.

Jurors mprovise July 21 2006, 17:10:07 UTC

Not wanting to seem squeamish about a small measure of civic responsibility, but why can't potential jurors be pulled from lists of the Department of Motor Vehicle driver's license holders rather than Secretary of State lists of registered voters?

Am I barking up the wrong tree or what?

I'm sure 'the man' would be happy to create an exemption for terrorists who only hold a driver's license to create havoc and mayhem in this country.

lee36j February 17 2013, 03:41:31 UTC