How Many Propositions On Your Ballot?

We had two:

1. A State Constitutional Amendment providing that no person convicted as a felony may serve as Sheriff. Gerald Hege was running for his old position in Davidson County. In case you don't know this guy, this was his Christmas Card in 2001:

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2. A $40M County bond on renovating/ expanding libraries. Stupid. Haven't they heard of the internet?
 
2 on mine. One for the Columbus City library and one for the local fire department.

No more subversive socialist organization in the world exist then public libraries and the Columbus system is one of the best in the nation. I voted for it.

Our township lost it's funding for emergency services cause of cuts at the Statehouse so now they want us to pay for it.....well better to pay for it then have my house burn down.

Actually the library one will cost about $25/$100,000 of valuation. No problem there our public libraries here are excellent and well worth paying for.

The Emergency services one wasn't cheap. $250/$100,000 in valuation. Considering where I live that meant the average homeowners taxes could go up by $700 to $1200 per year.
 
2 on mine. One for the Columbus City library and one for the local fire department.

No more subversive socialist organization in the world exist then public libraries and the Columbus system is one of the best in the nation. I voted for it.

Our township lost it's funding for emergency services cause of cuts at the Statehouse so now they want us to pay for it.....well better to pay for it then have my house burn down.

Actually the library one will cost about $25/$100,000 of valuation. No problem there our public libraries here are excellent and well worth paying for.

The Emergency services one wasn't cheap. $250/$100,000 in valuation. Considering where I live that meant the average homeowners taxes could go up by $700 to $1200 per year.

Awesome you liberals are going to tax yourselves further into urban blight. :)

Libraries aren't as necessary as they once were. Information, which used to be expensive, is now cheap. And it can only get cheaper with books going into Kindle type formats. Periodicals are now all on the web, or they should be. Research documents should all be in pdf format. You must really hate trees to grind them into all that paper.

Fire departments as well are bloated and there's lots of ways to save money. Many of the new trucks sell for $500,000 or more. Much of the cost is due to being pimped out with chrome and stainless trim. Blighted areas should be consolidated and old fire traps torn down. Requiring new buildings and retrofits to upgrade fire systems reduces public costs.

One problem with you lib-tards is that you can't think outside the box.
 
We had three. One was to hold a 2011 constitutional convention for the state constitution. I was torn on this because on the one hand, periodically reviewing the constitution isn't a bad thing. But on the other hand I'm happy with our states current constitution, so in the end I voted against it. The next was an initiative to block people with certain felonies from running/holding public office. I'm not big on limiting options for felons, on the belief that it only leads them back to crime, but the felonies listed were money fraud, betraying public trust, and other things of that nature. I supported that one. Finally we had a county tax raise of .25 cents on every $1000 for the county parks in the city. If this were state wide I'd be for it, but since our city/county parks suck ass, and nothing will stop the sucking ass, I voted it down.

As for candidates, I was pretty even handed, at least in terms of party affiliation. Some Libertarians (a lot of state level ones) a couple Republicans, and a couple democrat judges (who had NRA scores of B+ or higher).
 
we had a shitload. I voted against most of them. I voted for medical mj. For protecting the rights of hunters and pretty much against everything else including the Cubs. Fuck them.
 
the nra is a glorious organization that serves to protect one of our most sacred rights. all those opposed to the nra should be executed by slow slicing.
 
We had 9 here in WA. Nothing really got accomplished. We evaded the Income Tax, but we also cut back our sales taxes on soda/candy/bottled water, which I opposed. We failed to privatize the liquor industry and to divert more funds into enforcement, and a measure to open up industrial insurance to private entities also failed.

On the shitty side, we are allowing the state to not count certain types of categories as debt, so that it will be able to essentially run greater deficits than before, which is frightening, considering Olympia's 100% inability to budget for anything, ever, at any given time.
 
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