If anyone knows what the arguments for and against the New York public questions are, advise me. (This does NOT say "gabbneb, tell me how to vote.")
Once again, Voter Guide hasn't reached mailbox in time.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)
to wit:
The only statewide ballot question will affect the tap water of 125 residents of a hamlet in upstate New York.
The measure will ask New Yorkers if the Adirondack hamlet of Raquette Lake can continue to use a well drilled in the state's forest preserve, or if the 125 people who live there have to go back to using amber-colored water that became unsafe to drink after it was treated.
The reservoir water stained clothes and left white bathtubs and toilets the color of maple wood. When treated with chlorine, organic material in the water created elevated levels of a carcinogen.
The constitutional amendment would allow the state to trade one acre of forest preserve in Hamilton County, where a clean water source is located, for 12 acres of land that is at least equal in value. The Raquette Lake reservoir would be abandoned as a source of drinking water.
Yeah, I think I'll go to the Paradjanov film instead.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)
http://flickr.com/photos/exuberance/1889413413/
― get bent, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)
God help me, Haley Barbour was preferable to the Democratic candidate for governor today. ;_;
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)
Haley Barbour! ? Only in Miss, eh, Rock?
― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)
I know which district 1 dona ana county commisioner is getting my vote today! This seems barely worthwhile, but I like their position on libraries. Okay.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)
Ugh, why didn't I just skip the governor's race? I feel so dirty.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)
oh yeah, Barbour's opponent was a conservative evangelical Dem, right? Doesn't sound THAT much diff from the national party to me.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)
Eaves was probably the more conservative of the two candidates, but Barbour had the Repub. nomination locked up, so his only shot was to run as a Dem. His "I am THE MOST CHRISTIAN CANDIDATE EVAR" ads gave me the squicks something awful. Barbour's campaign was 100% attack ads about how Eaves represented plaintiffs suing our proud heroic armed forces.
― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)
In other news, Oregon measures seem to have passed or failed according to how I voted for them, which is the first time I've felt really enfranchised in... well, possibly ever.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)
I hesitated for a second before voting against the stem-cell research bond initiative in NJ, but really, all NJ needs at this point is another $450m of debt.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)