Voted!

[opus512]

Straight party ticket, baybee!

First time I ever voted straight ticket (largely because the friggin Republicans redrew the districts and took away the one Republican I would have voted for). All the people I knew about I was going to vote Democrat for anyway. Never know who to vote for for the college regencies, heh.

Also voted against ending the ability to vote a straight ticket, that was one of the proposals. Now why the hell would that be a problem? The only reason I can see to make that option unavailable is to make it more complicated to vote. That just doesn't make sence.

Also voted against letting the state of Michigan use their tabaco settlement money differently then they originaly were supposed to, screw that.

Voted for letting the state borrow up to 1 billion for state wide sewage treatment upgrades as well as run off and standing water improvements.

Damn, can't remember the last proposal, but I remember I voted for it, heheh.

[Pier]

Originally posted by opus512
Straight party ticket, baybee!

First time I ever voted straight ticket (largely because the friggin Republicans redrew the districts and took away the one Republican I would have voted for). All the people I knew about I was going to vote Democrat for anyway. Never know who to vote for for the college regencies, heh.

Also voted against ending the ability to vote a straight ticket, that was one of the proposals. Now why the hell would that be a problem? The only reason I can see to make that option unavailable is to make it more complicated to vote. That just doesn't make sence.

Also voted against letting the state of Michigan use their tabaco settlement money differently then they originaly were supposed to, screw that.

Voted for letting the state borrow up to 1 billion for state wide sewage treatment upgrades as well as run off and standing water improvements.

Damn, can't remember the last proposal, but I remember I voted for it, heheh.


I voted too. Never missed a single election since I became a citizen.
Voted straight Democrat except for Gray Davis. He suxorz. But I'll be damned if I vote Bill Simon. Sheesh, if the Republicans would stop putting up semi-Nazi candidates they'd win the governorship for sure.

[Babel-17]

Yup, me too. I followed Joe Connason's advice. It was tough not voting for Pataki who seems to understand the reality of the working class in his state and does make an effort. Ah well, karma kickback for his slavish support of Bush in the primaries ..... Winning NY could have put McCain in the catbirds seat.

http://www.salon.com/politics/conason/2002/11/04/bush/index.html

My third-party vote
Here in New York, Carl McCall is a competent, decent man with an inspiring personal story who has run a bland, uninspiring race. Tomorrow I plan to vote for McCall anyway on the Working Families Party line, for two reasons. While George Pataki has performed a credible imitation of a union-loving, tree-hugging Democrat, alienating many of his right-wing supporters, he is what my Filipino friends used to call a "juke-box politician." (Put money in the slot and he plays your song.)

My friend Wayne Barrett, the Village Voice's great investigative reporter who has been covering Pataki since 1994, last week said this in an endorsement of McCall: "I wrote a book about a 'City for Sale' once, but I have never known a government more for sale than Pataki's." In ethical terms, the New York governor is a Northeastern liberal version of Jeb Bush -- and appropriately (or inappropriately) enough, his wife is involved in a peculiar state-financed land deal in Florida.

McCall won't win, but he is the nominee of the WFP, a progressive party whose continued presence on the ballot is an important source of grass-roots pressure on wayward Democrats. Based in the labor and community movements, the WFP needs 50,000 votes or more in this election to displace the decadent, corrupt old Liberal Party. Cross-endorsement is permitted in New York, and as a result third parties play a different role here than in other states where they are usually mere spoilers. (We also have a spoiler Green Party candidate, whose posters were up around my neighborhood last week. He happens to be someone with whom I've been acquainted for decades. If he is qualified to be governor, then I'm ready to pilot the Space Shuttle.)
[(9:15 a.m. PST, Nov. 4, 2002]

[GrimFaceOfReality]

LOL Babel, I didn't even notice you were up here in NY.

Although I did not like any of the 3 major gubernatorial candidates, I ended up going straight ticket as well. I sure as hell don't want Calisano's crew to get into election boards..

[EG]

LOL..lot a good it did you guys..........

[opus512]

Originally posted by EGhadsGhost
LOL..lot a good it did you guys..........

Worked good enough for me, we got a Democratic governor out of it :P

[GrimFaceOfReality]

Originally posted by EGhadsGhost
LOL..lot a good it did you guys..........

Well it did: it granted me whining privileges. As I always said: "If you don't vote, STFU and stop complaining".

[Babel-17]

Huh, here's an update on the new political party/wing of the democratic party I supported with my vote. Looks like they'll be back.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=317&e=1&cid=317&u=/trib/20021107/lo_newsday/end_of_the_line_for_liberal_party

Local - Newsday
End of the Line For Liberal Party
Thu Nov 7, 8:43 AM ET

By Graham Rayman

Tuesday's election marked the end of a political era, as Ray Harding's 58-year-old Liberal Party failed to obtain enough votes to retain an all-important ballot line.

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The party of Harding, a dominant behind-the-scenes figure in the Giuliani years, received 16,417 votes in the governor's race, well short of the 50,000-vote minimum needed to retain the line.

The relatively new Working Families Party, meanwhile, garnered more than 80,000 votes. Even the Green Party, with 40,534 votes, and the Right to Life Party, with 42,941 votes, easily outgained the Liberal Party.

In the end, Harding backed the wrong horse in the governor's race, Andrew Cuomo, who dropped out shortly before the Democratic primary and threw his support to party nominee H. Carl McCall.

[ItsNoot]

Originally posted by Pier
But I'll be damned if I vote Bill Simon. Sheesh, if the Republicans would stop putting up semi-Nazi candidates they'd win the governorship for sure.

LOL!! Ain't that the truth :D

[Perpetualis]

I voted republican all the way, word.

[Sabbz]

I voted Democrat and Liberatarian. Whole helluva lotta good it did. Every office in SC is held by friggin Republicans now.