It's simple
Our statewide voters' pamphlet arrived in the mail yesterday, and although it's 154 pages long, I didn't have to spend much time with it at all. That's in stark contrast with the local edition, where figuring out the ludicrous Portland mayor and City Council elections should entitle you to a joint degree in political science and statistics.
In the state-level races, the only contested positions pit Democrats against Republicans and fringe candidates, and so those are no-brainers. Given who's at the top of their ticket, you must not vote for any Republicans, for anything, ever. Shame on all of them for what they've done to this country with nine years and counting of Orange Caligula. It's Democrat or fringe, pick your poison.
And the statewide ballot measures all look like junk to me, and so I'm voting no on all of them. Especially bad are "rank choice" voting (117) and the "free money" sales tax (118), but none of the other three are worth your time. And so it's anybody but the Republicans, and no on all the ballot measures. Easy peasy.
I see that that awful judge, Rima Ghandour, is running unopposed to be retained on the Multnomah County bench. That's too bad. She's been a blister on the heel of progress when it comes to the tent addict crisis, and I was hoping someone would step forward as an alternative. Alas, it's not to be.
Meanwhile, one of the other circuit court judgeships has five people running for it, but not a single one of them has a page in the voters' pamphlet. I'm not sure what that's all about; I'll have to look into it further.
I like the idea of voting Republican- not that they are better, but just to shake things up. The stranglehold on urban Democrats has made the state far worse, way too high a tax burden, and a virtue signaling Hell.
ReplyDeleteThe whole "shake things up" thing is dead to me after the horror show that was Trump. That was enough shaking to set to country back a generation or two.
DeleteRecently, a business associate ask me “of the local candidates that are openly identified as Democrats. Which would you interview for a job opening”
DeleteYour statement presupposes the remaining candidates are qualified. I'm with the professor, no Republicans for anything.
Delete“Good” democrats?!
DeleteThe only way the GOP returns to being a serious party is if they moderate. I would consider voting for a sane republican centrist, but alas they've all been run off. The Tom McCalls and Victor Atiyehs have left the building.
DeleteThe only way they moderate is if they are met with a string of electoral losses that show that we aren't interested in their current culture war bullshit and constant obstructionism of wanting problems to score political points with, instead of having SOLUTIONS to score political points with.
This GOP needs to feel more electoral pain before the pendulum swings back to where the electorate actually is.
What about Lathrop?
ReplyDeleteNo Republicans. No exceptions.
DeleteAren't you voting for Rene the Republican?
DeleteNice try, but Rene isn’t a Republican.
DeleteJust hated, treated and called one, here, but not one.
DeleteJudge Amy Baggio resigned to accept an appointment to the federal bench right at the elect don’t appoint deadline and all the candidates running for the position filed after the deadline to submit a voters’ pamphlet statement. Statements for (most) available at https://mbabar.org/judicialcandidates
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