Comments on: Art’s picks for the Nov. 4 Election

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:05:27 +0000

Larry 100% with his Party. Who woulda thunk it.

By: Ron St. John

Ron St. John — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:40:35 +0000

Let me make a couple corrections. I’ve got Vern in 78% agreement with the Libertarian party, not 80%. I misread my notes and forgot that the LP wimped out and had no position on three of the props.

Plus I forgot Larry as part of our scorecards. Larry gets a perfect 100% agreement with the GOP, 58% agreement with the OC Register, 56% agreement with the Libertarians, 50% agreement with the LA Times, and 17% agreement with the Democrats.

Larry is our only pure Republican. Ron W. is more of a compassionate conservative of the Huckabee/George W. persuasion, and I’m too liberal on social issues. I’ll try to amend my earlier comment.

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:02:00 +0000

I was always for 11. But those percentages do sound better.

I think I will write posts about 2 and 5.

By: Ron St. John

Ron St. John — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:29:31 +0000

Vern,

If you flip-flop on 2 and 11, and go yes on 5, you’ll be at 80% libertarian, 92% with the OC Register, 75% with the LA Times, 36% with the GOP, and 64% with the Dems.

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:19:10 +0000

100% Libertarian huh? This is probably from something I wrote a month ago before studying these closely. Right now I’m favoring 2, 5 and 11. I think 2 is new for me. I gotta write up my official post…

By: Ron St. John

Ron St. John — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:42:58 +0000

Art,

I agree with all your original suggestions and I’m proud to be supporting you in your City Council race. I haven’t changed my mind about 12, but I get your point.

Your positions reflect the centrist, independent, common sense that voters are starving for, but don’t get out of the current primary system. I’ve done kind of a spreadsheet, and here’s some scores of how we rate on agreement with newspapers and political parties:

Agreement with Libertarian Party:

Vern 100%
Ron St. John 89%
Art 78%
Ron Winship 14%

Agreement with Orange County Register:

Ron St. John 92%
Art 83%
Vern 82%
Ron Winship 27%

Agreement with Los Angeles Times:

Art 83%
Ron St. John 75%
Vern 64%
Ron Winship 45%

Agreement with California Republican Party:

Art 55%
Vern 50%
Ron St. John 45%
Ron Winship 40%

Agreement with California Democratic Party:

Art 64%
Vern 60%
Ron St. John 54%
Ron Winship 40%

If you don’t pass Ron W.’s Constantinople test, at least you’re in good company, because the newspapers and political parties are contributing to the same library.

By: Sweetelle

Sweetelle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:10:06 +0000

Rick and Anonyms,

Thanks for your comments. It appears it varies among areas – Vern called the registrar in OC and it didn’t require 2. Here in Sacto I guess there were extra items on the ballot.

Glad it’s not turning out to be an issue! Just wanted to mention it because I thought it was strange …

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:59:15 +0000

Sweetelle, 215,179 mail-in ballots of been returned as of yesterday. So far,it appears, the postage thing has not been an issue.

By: Anonyms

Anonyms — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:51:17 +0000

#18 Sweetelle, I didnt see that about the two stamps. Glad I dropped my mail ballot off at one of the early voting places, that way I knew it would get to the Registrars office. By the way, thanks and praise without limit to the people who volunteer to work polling places and early voting places. I appreciate all of you so much. Thank you , thank you , thank you!

By: Sarah Michelle Spinosa

Sarah Michelle Spinosa — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:48:25 +0000

The opposition’s claims that their self interests are not being met are just selfish. They have no right to impose their moral views on our children.

I don’t know about you, but my moral view is that all people are equal and that children can grow up to be whatever they choose. I guess I’ve been wrong all this time then! *gasp*

SMS

By: beetlebabee

beetlebabee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:18:00 +0000

The opposition’s claims that their self interests are not being met are just selfish. They have no right to impose their moral views on our children. ESPECIALLY without our consent. It’s more than just “love” at stake here. I think it’s important to recognize the human rights of the children involved. France rejected same sex marriage because it trampled the rights that children have to a mother and a father. Their pursuit of self interest at all costs is selfish. Making our children be exposed to same sex marriage ideas corrupts their impressionable minds.

MONTREAL, March 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In late January, a 30 member parliamentary commission of the French National Assembly published a 453 page Report on the Family and the rights of Children, which rejected same-sex marriage.

DeSerres, told LifeSiteNews.com “Referring to the rights of children as a human rights issue, the report argued that children ‘now have rights and to systematically give preference to adult aspirations over respect for these rights is not possible any more.’”

In the report, the commission says that “the child represents the future of society.” The commission asks legislators to make sure that “children, confronted with mutations in family models, be fully taken into account and not suffer from situations imposed upon them by adults.” It adds: “The interest of the child must take precedence over adults’ exercise of their freedom (…) including with regards to parents’ lifestyle choices.”

By: Sweetelle

Sweetelle — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:53:22 +0000

I haven’t seen anyone mention this, so I thought this would be the best place. I just sent in my absentee ballot and there was little notice on an insert indicating that due to the number of contests in this election, the envelope required two stamps. It wasn’t printed on the envelope itself.

I thought this was a surprising oversight and wonder how many ballots will be sent without adequate postage????