I did not watch the debate last night between Gary King and Governor Martinez. I didn't see any point in doing so because I will go vote for King today at an early voting site. Probably, the only ones watching were pollsters, political bloggers(not me), campaign workers and all those consultants who are paid to make the Governor look like an informed and caring pol. Day for Night. Making her look like something she is not.
We had dinner guests over last night and the sample ballot on the dinner table brought lots of comments for its incredible size. All those Judge races and retention questions make it mostly a crap shoot for the candidates. No one knows them or pays much attention to these races. They are important, but there needs to be a better way of handling these judicial elections. I will probably just vote for the democrats in most cases, although some of those judges aren't great. I will take some of the advice of the Judicial Standards group who rate the sitting judges for retention.
I will vote for the marijuana question, but not the tax for mental health services in Bernallio County. They are those two non-binding and frivolous questions thrown on to the ballot by the democrats on the County Commission. It was a dumb thing to do.
The reason I will vote against the mental health question is its funding source. Another increase to the gross receipts tax means that once again an extremely regressive tax will fund these needed services instead of a tax that hits the poorest the least. And, if the County proceeds with the tax then surrounding communities will send their patients here at no cost to them. There needs to be a statewide solution to this problem.
We had dinner guests over last night and the sample ballot on the dinner table brought lots of comments for its incredible size. All those Judge races and retention questions make it mostly a crap shoot for the candidates. No one knows them or pays much attention to these races. They are important, but there needs to be a better way of handling these judicial elections. I will probably just vote for the democrats in most cases, although some of those judges aren't great. I will take some of the advice of the Judicial Standards group who rate the sitting judges for retention.
I will vote for the marijuana question, but not the tax for mental health services in Bernallio County. They are those two non-binding and frivolous questions thrown on to the ballot by the democrats on the County Commission. It was a dumb thing to do.
The reason I will vote against the mental health question is its funding source. Another increase to the gross receipts tax means that once again an extremely regressive tax will fund these needed services instead of a tax that hits the poorest the least. And, if the County proceeds with the tax then surrounding communities will send their patients here at no cost to them. There needs to be a statewide solution to this problem.
2 comments:
Jim
In the Metro Court judge race consider voting for Chris Schultz. 29 years of experience in our system makes him the most qualified candidate. He has support from democrats and republicans. Furthermore he is accepting ZERO campaign contributions. We need to kee Chris Schultz as judge.
Dan Klein
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