1. You live in AZ
Here's how I voted on this year's state propositions, FYI:
100 YES
101 YES
102 YES (duh)
105 YES
200 NO
201 NO
202 NO
300 YES
If you would like to know my reasons on any of the above, I would be happy to answer any questions in the comments section. Yes, Hubs and I were very thorough in our research and consideration of all angles. We even disagreed on a couple of points.
Being involved with Prop 102 has been fun. Last Monday night for FHE we took the kids out and put flyers on doors. Hubs did some phonebanking and will be at a polling place tomorrow afternoon. We've had a sign in our front yard... a few weeks ago it was stolen, along with most of the other ones in our neighborhood. We immediately put up a new sign, which was recently kicked over and sprayed with silly string. Real mature, people.
In other news, Molly's first grade class voted today (Monday) for Obama/McCain... out of 21 kids in the class, 10 voted for Obama and 11 for McCain. I'm a little surprised here in conservative Gilbert, AZ that it was so close! When the kids asked the teacher who she's voting for, she told them "it's a secret." Good answer!
We told the kids they can stay up late Tuesday night to watch the results come in... I'm excited for it, even if things don't go my way it's still neat to see the democratic process in action. But I do have my fingers crossed...
12 comments:
Hi Sara...I'm preparing my "cheat sheet" for when I go vote in the morning and would like to know why you are voting yes on prop 105. I know nothing about it and would like to hear what you think. Thanks:)
I went back and forth on 105... a lot of conservatives are voting for it because it makes it very hard to pass any law that raises taxes. It seemed a little strange to me when I first researched it but in the end, I never want higher taxes so there you go :)
I understood that 105 stops making it possible for a "micro majority" to raise taxes (or legislate fees or spending obligations by vote.) This makes it so a majority of registered voters acutally have to vote and pass an initiative. It keeps special interests from getting a measure passed even with a low turn out vote. I understand it like this: If there are 100 registered voters, 50+1 must vote to pass an initiative. Not 20 voters actually turn out and 10+1 vote to pass an initiative.
We agree on all the ballot measures. Great minds think alike!
Now, Sara, how did you vote for all those dang judges?!?!?
We have two different answers than you. But both are on props that we are a little uncertain on. 105 and 200. We've done our research... but other than that, we're with you.
Yeah, we're pretty much in-sync. I voted the exact same as you, although I can't remember now what I decided on 105. ?? We'll see how it all turns out!
Here's a link for Meredith:
http://azjudgesreview.blogspot.com/
I'm going to have to rethink 105 and 200. Man, I thought I was all ready....
THAT LAST COMMENT WAS NOT QUINTEN. IT WAS ME. HE'S DEFINITELY DECIDED. And he still says NO on 105.
Jame, I thought Mom had told me that you & Eric vote differently on a couple of them... like the health insurance one and the immigration one? Maybe I'm wrong; when we were talking about it I hadn't researched all of them yet so I wasn't entirely sure what she was talking about.
As for the judges; Aaron had 3 websites open at the same time: the one that Quinten referenced, which is conservative, also netroots (which is liberal), and the Sonoran Alliance, which I think is also conservative. If a judge got good marks from both sides, we marked them as a yes. If everybody hated them, we marked them as a no. Several were left blank if nobody seemed to have a very strong opinion of them. But we figured that reading opinions from both conservative and liberal viewpoints would be a pretty good indicator of how fair & impartial a judge is. Apparently a lot of those judges are on power trips and need to be voted out, but I was pretty conservative in my voting & left it blank if I wasn't sure.
Also, from what I understand, 105 would not affect ballot measures like 102 - my sister was misunderstood on this and thought a pass of 105 would keep it form possibly passing. It only would affect anything that legislates taxes of fees or legislative spending. 102 is a constitutional amendment that requires no spending.
I am still convinced no on 200. The "YES" campaign is promoted by the industry and they don't want their cushy "deregulation" to sunset in 2010.
Aren't we so blessed to live in a place where we can research and vote and participate in the process?
No on 105, no on 200, no on Crane Mcclennan. Sorry I didn't check this last night.
Well, I just got back from voting. The line was short. I was glad to be there.
I did end up changing to NO on 200. I stuck with NO on 105. We think that it's okay to have some govt. spending... and if it passes, it will be practically impossible to ever pass something that would raise funds for any reason.
As for the judges, we researched several different sites... and basically we voted out any who are liberal or extreme in their views. Or we voted out some that Quinten has had personal experiences with and that he really didn't like (and vice versa).
I was totally unaware of the continuing debate over on Krista's blog. I don't know who rude Martha is or hifalutin Justin. But oh my goodness, these people are something else. I'm sorry I haven't been commenting over there in support of what we believe. I'm just not going to get into it though. I'm too wussy. I don't want to be attacked by mean Martha.
I'm totally done over there; I didn't mind it but that Martha is obviously going to be confrontational no matter what, and pick apart everything I say so I can see that there's no point!
I just voted too -- just dropped off my early ballot and didn't have to wait in line. It was a long line though! It was fun; I held a Prop 102 sign for a while for Howie Karger, who read books to my girls while I gave him a break on the sign-holding. Good times.
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