Confession: I am skipping today's City Council and School Board elections

rox63

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Tue Nov-06-07 08:36 AM
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Confession: I am skipping today's City Council and School Board elections

I am fine on races for state and national elections, even the state legislature, DA, treasurer, etc. But I have no freakin' clue what the differences are between the candidates for today's elections to my town's city council and school board. I feel guilty for not voting today, but I also don't want to make stupid, uninformed choices.

Does this make me a bad Dem and a bad voter? :shrug:

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Ian David

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Tue Nov-06-07 08:46 AM
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1. Did you at least do SOME research?

I've checked all the names against www.KnowThyNeighbor.org and OpenSecrets.org

I also did some Googling.

I'm almost completely decided on the entire ballot.

I'm having trouble deciding who to vote for in Brockton Ward 5 for Councilor at Large
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=158&topic_id=13421&mesg_id=13421

See also:

Ward 1 member Maurice Hancock-- anti-gay bigot
http://www.knowthyneighbor.org/thelist.php?searchValue=Hancock&searchField=last_name&sortBy=last_name&sortDir=ASC&page=1&anchor=list#list

Larry Curtis Jr. anti-gay bigot for Ward 6 councilor
http://www.knowthyneighbor.org/thelist.php?searchValue=Curtis&searchField=last_name&sortBy=last_name&sortDir=ASC&page=1&anchor=list#list

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rox63

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Tue Nov-06-07 09:14 AM
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2. Some of the candidates are people whose names I've been hearing for decades

Because they've been involved in city politics for ages. But I don't know what they stand for as opposed to the others.

I said I feel guilty... :(

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Ian David

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Tue Nov-06-07 10:17 AM
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3. Then write-in "Al Gore." n/t

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