You have waited for this an entire year: my choices for the Nov. 2005 election! Read them. Use them. Reply to them. If I disagree with your reply, I might post something about that. But unlike Bill O'LIE-ly, I will be polite about it.
Here are links to my picks for the California Propositions.
- Proposition 73: NO on Dead Teenage Girls
- Proposition 74: NO on Dose Teachers Cannot Defy Dah Governator
- Proposition 75: NO on Shuddup, Unions; Keep Screaming, Big Business
- Proposition 76: NO on Da Teachers Don't Need Money
- Proposition 77: NO on DeLaying Our Voting Districts
- Proposition 78: NO on Discounts If Drug Companies Feel Like It; 79: YES to Help The Poor
- Proposition 80: YES on No More Enron
Here are links to my picks for the San Mateo issues.
- Measure A: San Mateo Community College District (another bond initiative)
- San Mateo County Community College District Members, Governing Board
- San Mateo Union High School, District Members, Governing Board
- San Mateo-Foster City School District Members, Governing Board
- City of San Mateo Members, City Council
2 comments:
Well Dr. Aye, I am always amazed at how we are such good friends, yet basically polar opposites politically. It's OK, because politics don't count in the long run, anyway. At least not as much as friendship. And besides, if I was surrounded by conservative talk show hosts only, I'd surely spontaneously impload. At least if they were what goes by conservative, like the Leprechaun (heh heh!)
OK. And now, for a different point of view...
* Proposition 73: NO on Dead Teenage Girls
A pre 18-year old has no right to determine whether a living, beating heart inside her should be offed, either. I agree with your basic "let's be sensible about this" remarks, but a life is a life, whether it's in the womb or that of the teenage mother.
* Proposition 74: NO on Dose Teachers Cannot Defy Dah Governator
Remember, the teaching profession is the only one where *a job is guaranteed for life* after only two short years. Most screwups take longer than that to mature into full-blown out of control nutcases, who should have never been hired in the first place. My thought is this: If I'm going to pay their salary and schedule-based pay increases *for life*, then they can serve at least five years to get there. Heck, my time at various corporate venues has ranged from 2.5 to 13.5 years, tending to a greater than three years average, so five is "right in there".
* Proposition 75: NO on Shuddup, Unions; Keep Screaming, Big Business
Well, you're right, this isn't about big business. They were dealt with separately in previous campaign spending measures (as I recall, there's a ceiling on the contributions candidates can receive from any source, including corporations). No, what this is about is how the massive amount of money, which Unions collect from their members, is used to benefit the member. If the member has no say on how his/her money is spent, then that's not really free choice, is it? And I can share with you, from personal experience, that a teacher like my wife pays around $100 per monthly paycheck to the Union, no strings attached. So just what are they doing with all that money (aside from yet more CTA commercials on KCBS?)
* Proposition 76: NO on Da Teachers Don't Need Money
I'll keep it short: If there's no money to pay da teachers, then it doesn't matter whether they need the money or not, no?
* Proposition 77: NO on DeLaying Our Voting Districts
Huh? What's this about? The proposal is a much better step in the right direction that what we have now: Guaranteed gerrymandering, big time!
* Proposition 78: NO on Discounts If Drug Companies Feel Like It; 79: YES to Help The Poor
I'm voting for 78 because it sounds like a good idea and a reasonable one to me. But 79 doesn't. It sounds like a Pandora's Box of legal suits just waiting to happen. So I say yes to 78 and no to 79.
* Proposition 80: YES on No More Enron
You can't sufficiently legislate protection against the likes of what Enron did: Totally crooked market manipulation and stock dumping. So you're comparing apples and oranges here. I see no advantage in increasing the PUC's central control, do you? I mean, what have they done for you recently, other than approve all those "PG&E is increasing costs" notices in your bills?
Hmm. NONE passed?! Smells like bad fish to me. Or else it shows just how polarized it's become out there. Also blows Lemmon's Hypothesis out of the water: "The only people willing to spend money more than the politicians are the voters!" I can't believe that 79 didn't pass, based on that ;-)
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