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No local races, hal? No bond issues or charter amendments or referendums?
Nothing that I can get myself to care about... I use to be very serious about voting, but after 25 years realized that if I had never voted, not a damned thing would have been different.
Well, as a
drop-in-the-ocean comment, you could make the same argument about paying taxes.
Pay taxes. Also vote. We all depend on it.
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In Minnesota, Sen. Franken won by just 300 votes in 2008. It would have been bad if we had had a bunch of hals. Everyone knows about Florida in 2000. Vote like your future depended on it.
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hal wrote:
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No local races, hal? No bond issues or charter amendments or referendums?
Nothing that I can get myself to care about... I use to be very serious about voting, but after 25 years realized that if I had never voted, not a damned thing would have been different.
Prop 61, you ought to be motivated if only because Big Pharma is spending upward of $100 million to thwart it.