CA Election
 

I decided to start a thread for this since rather than post in the Random Throughts thread...

So, the CA election is quickly coming upon us. And I don't care. I used to be soooo excited about going to vote, did my research, made educated votes for everything. And now? I just don't care. Jadedness and apathy have taken over.

I know we have at least two people running for office, and a prop that Martin Sheen wants you to vote for and other people don't. I'm sure there is much more to the election. It's major, we're electing a new Governor, or re-electing the Governator.

Is CA really better now that A-hnold has taken the reigns? I think he stopped the damage that Davis was doing to the Community Colleges, but other than that I'm not sure. Are we worse for it? I doubt it.

Educate me. Educate each other. I know the apathy and jadeness isn't unique to me. Can we make a difference? Do our votes really matter?

I know nothing of CA politics, bt I think your special election coming up tomorrow is interesting. The corrupt republican Duke Cunningham is being replaced.

I read that the democrat candidate - can't remember her name - said to a latino audience something to the effect that they don't need to be legal citizens to vote.

Yikes.

That's what she said but she clearly meant to say that you don't need papers to help out with a campaign (not necessarily lightyears better but still).

I really don't care about much in this election either. I'm inclined to vote for Schwarzenegger this time around (I didn't in the recall election) since I don't think he has done anything terrible since getting elected and has at least pushed for reform on some important issues that I don't think will be addressed by either Westley or Angelides.

I oppose the referendum and proposition process so I vote no on all of those out of principal. I don't vote on positions where I have no qualifications to decide who is better for the job (I have no idea what BART Commissioner #3 or Water Quality Board Trustee #5 do) and now that I am out in the suburbs and really don't care about local politics this creates quite a few positions where I won't be voting.

I will be filing an absentee ballot for Arizona, however, so that I can have my chance at the $1,000,000.

I put my absentee ballot in the mail. I'm done with this election, the mailings. the phone calls. Done.

The race I'm most interested in is the run-off election for Lond Beach Mayor.

We had 8 messages on our machine when we got home. 7 were campaign recordings.

I have no idea what's going on in this election. As such, I probably won't vote. I know, I'm a horrible citizen, but I'd rather not vote than vote uninformed.

When Lani and I moved we gave up the landline and just use our cell phones. This has made election season much more tolerable.

I'm thrilled I won't have to hear any more mud-slinging commercials after tomorrow!


Well, at least until the next election.

My Ballot's in the mail

Oh crap. It's tomorrow? Shows you how much I don't care.

Oh well. I doubt I'll be voting since I can't make an educated vote.