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Election Day 2007

post #1 of 6
11/6/07 at 11:32am
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It's an off-year, but many of us still have elections for something. Overall, it's a pretty quiet year, though, in terms of big races. Jindal has already won in LA, and Barbour and Beshear are going to win big in MS and KY, respectively.

I'll probably vote after work, but all the elections where I live are pre-ordained. The Democratic incumbents will win, regardless of the job they've done. I plan to sit-out the state rep and senate races (I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I really don't know anything about them), but will vote against my local incumbents on general principle -- the property tax regime in Alexandria is downright confiscatory, and taxes on small businesses border on the ludicrous.

So, there's the boring election news from my area. Anyone have anything exciting to report?
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post #2 of 6
11/6/07 at 12:26pm
I don't think anything is going over here but this being CA there could be election to water board or something like that.
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post #3 of 6
11/6/07 at 1:37pm
It's actually a very interesting election here in Seattle, and in Washington State generally. We've got an initiative that represents a fistfight between lawyers and insurance companies; trying to choose a good guy and a bad guy in that dispute is like trying to decide whether you'd prefer to have a weasel or a Gila monster chew off your ball sack.
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post #4 of 6
11/6/07 at 2:54pm
In my one-year-old new city of Milton, Georgia, we had a city council race with 6 people (3 seats). 3 of the people running are all "together" and have gotten a major amount of their funding from developers, and more development is pretty much against what everyone here in Milton wants. The problem is, I don't know if people hear realize that. One person is an incumbent, but the other two aren't, and it's really hard to get those incumbents out when they've been elected one time.
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post #5 of 6
11/6/07 at 3:01pm
Going to vote in 30 minutes.
It's pretty unusual that I'm still getting those automated calls up until a few minutes ago. Normally, they cut that shit out by the Monday before.
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post #6 of 6
11/6/07 at 4:57pm
The main one for my district is the Human services issue. It will raise my property tax around $8 a month but this service is important enough to go ahead and vote for. This is the group that tends to the elderly (meals on wheels) and other services for the poor. Other votes went for school board members.
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