swamp
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Post by swamp on Nov 5, 2013 21:22:23 GMT -5
I want to go to bed, but there is a hotly contested DA race and I NEED to know the results before I go to sleep.
Anyone else watching the polls?
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chiver78
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Post by chiver78 on Nov 5, 2013 21:27:32 GMT -5
not your race, but I am watching the Boston Mayoral race. Mumbles Menino has finally stepped aside. good luck that your preferred candidate pulls out the win.
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Post by constanz22 on Nov 5, 2013 21:31:41 GMT -5
Nope, nothing exciting going on here. In fact, I just shared a post on FB from a local news station. In our little town, many of the elected positions had NOBODY running, including mayor...lol...I'm watching The Voice and going to bed
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Post by Timberwolf on Nov 5, 2013 21:35:43 GMT -5
Our race is fun this year for Minneapolis Mayor. The incumbent didn't run and there are 35 candidates on the ballot. We recently voted in ranked-choice voting so this race probably won't be called until some time tomorrow. It's fun to have some interesting choices.
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 5, 2013 22:58:57 GMT -5
I want to go to bed, but there is a hotly contested DA race and I NEED to know the results before I go to sleep. Anyone else watching the polls?
I'm up, what should I watch ?
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Nov 6, 2013 9:27:45 GMT -5
The incumbent lost. Fuck. This is going to be ugly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 9:41:04 GMT -5
Sorry to hear it, swamp.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 9:45:00 GMT -5
The incumbent lost. Fuck. This is going to be ugly. Is she going to make it Rain?
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Nov 6, 2013 9:46:49 GMT -5
The incumbent lost. Fuck. This is going to be ugly. Is she going to make it Rain? more like a monsoon.
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Post by sesfw on Nov 6, 2013 10:52:47 GMT -5
This small town had just 2 bond issues and one school over-ride on it. No people at all. Heard earlier that all 3 passed.
I voted yes on 2 of them but against the school bond. They want to spend $1.8M on artificial turf for the high school field. Real grass is softer, less likely for severe injury and watered with reclaimed water. But the bond also has technical upgrades the schools need so it passed. It's too bad we as voters don't have a line-item veto.
Oh well ............
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Post by shanendoah on Nov 6, 2013 10:59:49 GMT -5
We have Proposition One in our city- raise the minimum wage to $15/hour. It's currently passing, by enough that I think it will stand up, but so many people vote by mail in this state that I won't guarantee it. There are a couple of tea partiers up for re-election on our city council, one is losing, one is winning.
For county executive, the incumbent is winning handily, as is my preferred candidate for county council for my district. It looks like we will amend the county charter to create a public defenders office (previously that had been contract work), and we'll renew the levy that pays for ambulances.
We have some state wide advisory votes (which are the most poorly written items on the ballot). I voted to maintain all the votes, but with one exception, I would say all are too close to call right now. That one exception looks to be a repeal of the law the legislature passed regarding charging taxes on pediatric oral surgeons who want to call their work "necessary basic health care" but refuse to accept any dental plan offered through the healthcare exchange. Can't say I'm super surprised on that one- it not only has the disadvantage of being an advisory vote, it's an issue that I had a hard time parsing the language for, and I work in healthcare (or used to work in healthcare). It is also a very tight race to see if we will charge estate taxes on estates worth over 4 million. There aren't enough people in this state with estates worth over 4 million to vote against it, so I guess it's being voted down based on wishful thinking. (And many of the people in this state with estates worth over 4 million are in favor of estate taxes.)
Also statewide, it looks like the most recent Tim Eyman initiative will fail (thank the heavens). It also appears we will not start labeling genetically engineered food.
I probably should care about port commissioners, but I don't. So that's all the excitement from here.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on Nov 6, 2013 11:41:42 GMT -5
Let's see. We lost initiative 522 which required food labeling (THANKS MONSANTO!) and oh, SeaTac raised their minimum wage to $*15*/hr. GREAT!!!
I'm going to go stick my head in the sand for a few years. See ya.
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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 6, 2013 11:52:10 GMT -5
All we voted on was taxes for schools and taxes for recreational marijuana. I voted but haven't bothered to see what happened with them.
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 6, 2013 15:30:08 GMT -5
So freaking
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Nov 7, 2013 10:57:21 GMT -5
how is this going to affect you? I'll PM you when I get a chance.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Nov 7, 2013 13:42:26 GMT -5
The rest of us want to know too!
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Post by 8 Bit WWBG on Nov 8, 2013 12:29:38 GMT -5
The VA races were down to the wire, with some of them down to a few hundred votes different even with 98% of precincts reporting.
Thank goodness, sane choices prevailed; and the Tea Party owned, religious nutjob, women and gay hating candidates were denied their chance to screw things up even more.
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Post by tallguy on Nov 10, 2013 11:12:02 GMT -5
What? You're not a big fan of "Eyman-idiot?" (And doesn't that name fit perfectly?)
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Post by Shooby on Nov 10, 2013 11:15:03 GMT -5
I won! I have been elected to the School Board!
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Post by JustLurkin on Nov 10, 2013 12:55:16 GMT -5
Congrats!!
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Post by NastyWoman on Nov 10, 2013 14:26:43 GMT -5
I didn't know you were running Shooby but congratulations on your win
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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 11, 2013 13:19:51 GMT -5
Go shooby!
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Post by Shooby on Nov 11, 2013 13:49:47 GMT -5
I really didn't even expect to win the Primary! Then I did. So, I am very pleasantly surprised!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2013 13:51:24 GMT -5
I really didn't even expect to win the Primary! Then I did. So, I am very pleasantly surprised! Did you pretend to be black to win?
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Post by Shooby on Nov 11, 2013 14:02:08 GMT -5
Nah, I pretended to be a liberal.
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