…and it felt great.
I got my ballot last night, and I sat down and filled it out right away. I filled it out starting from the bottom, starting from Proposition 1.
This isn’t a sounding board for my political preferences, but I’m excited about this election. If anyone else has gotten your ballots and filled in the bubble for Proposition 1, sound off here!
Edit: Of course I voted for Prop 1! I just mean I’m not going to tell you to vote for Peter Goldmark, John Ladenburg, I-1000, and I-1029, and against I-985 and ‘non-partisan’ county offices, like I did… :)
Don’t hold in suspense Ben, how did you vote on Prop. 1? :-)
NO, of course! Who would vote for that boondoggle? ;)
I meant more things like Ladenburg, Goldmark, Gregoire, 1000, 1029, the other things I voted for. :)
me too!
yes on Prop 1
NO on 985
I am dropping mine into the voter box this afternoon. Better than using a stamp.
Awesome! I used a stamp, but in a few days I’ll check to see if it’s been registered (you can do that, right?)
I filled in my boxes last night :D
I’m walking up to T.T. Minor on election day, meeting one of my former co-workers even. It’s a good way to network and a great way to feel the energy.
see you there AJ
Yes, I voted today too!
Wooo! Awesome! High five!
Yes on 1029? Bad move.
Yeah, even The Stranger’s against 1029 :)
The SEIU supports it, and so do the care workers I’ve spoken with. It puts the expenditure burden on the state.
More than that – my first job (at 16) was caring for disabled children. I should not have had that job – I received almost no training, had little idea what I was doing, didn’t know anything about the conditions the kids had, just some specifics from the other people working in the same program. While it might have been harder to find people to do the job had it required more training, there were situations where it was blind luck that I knew what to do when a kid had a seizure, or there was someone else around who could deal with a kid who’d nearly poisoned themselves. I’m quite happy to have more stringent requirements, because I know how lax they were for me.
The only exception here – parents and children – are exempt under the initiative. Gregoire supports it, too.
The SEIU supports it, and so do the care workers I’ve spoken with.
Of course they do! The initiative raises the barriers to entry into the profession, which helps current employees but hurts the unemployed and those with insufficient resources to obtain the qualification.
To me, it’s the case of the narrow interests of the union vs. the interests of working class people in general.
Yeah, the more I’m reading about this, the more I realize this was a bad choice. I had a bunch of Democratic friends tell me good things about it, but I hadn’t heard all sides. I didn’t know there was a bill waiting for the legislative session to basically do the same thing.
Damn. :(