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By: Constitutional Amendment Lovefest » Doc’s Political Parlor

Constitutional Amendment Lovefest » Doc’s Political Parlor — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:54:18 +0000

[...] at Birmingham Blues has a good post on the two statewide amendments up for a vote tomorrow. (Here is a Birmingham News article that [...]

By: Birmingham Blues » Blog Archive » The Votes Are In

Birmingham Blues » Blog Archive » The Votes Are In — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:37:35 +0000

[...] statewide amendments passed by large margins. An underwhelming 9.6% of registered voters statewide (and a pathetic [...]

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:50:06 +0000

So maybe it’ll be under 5%.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:43:43 +0000

Please, Kathy….when I voted right before lunch time, I was number 51 in my precinct!!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:46:09 +0000

Lisa, I don’t know why the spam blocker keeps catching you this week. Sorry about that.

I wonder if turnout will end up being less than 10%. It certainly appears to be pitifully low so far.

By: Lisa in Hoover

Lisa in Hoover — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:46:04 +0000

I voted around 3:30 p.m. at Shades Mountain Baptist and I was #98. My voting record remains at 99.99 percent! (I missed the referendum on horse racing in Birmingham back in I think 1984 or ‘85, because I had the ‘flu and couldn’t want the half a block to the polling place. That’s the only one I’ve missed since I cast my first vote ever for Jimmy Carter.)

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:05:38 +0000

Lisa, that was a good column, a gentle indictment of the inattention of the general population and John himself. When I voted this morning (about 8:45, after the "rush" of voters stopping by on their way to work), I was #52 at my precinct. Sad.

By: Lisa in Hoover

Lisa in Hoover — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:44:07 +0000

Re Amendment 2: I see it as a responsible way to insure that future teachers will have health coverage when they retire. Pension funds are often attractive targets for raiding by governments who need short-term financial fixes. Of course, the money never gets put back in. Amendment 2 states that funds already in a trust to pay retiree health benefits cannot be used for any other purpose. It’s not really earmarking as much as protecting from future fiscal disaster.

My college daughter’s dream is to be a high school English teacher. My YES vote on Amendment 2 is to help make that career a little bit more fiscally sound.

(I have not been contacted by anyone or told to say this – it’s based on what I have read in the paper. Which is apparently more than my friend John Archibald did, as he admitted in his column this morning!)

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:04:30 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful postings, Kathy–referencing your blog saves a lot on typing and phrasing. As you note, we have people whose views are normally 180 degrees from each other joined in opposition. There’s also the serious question, why vote anything but ‘no’ when the Legislature will not do its job on constitutional reform?

I made up my mind after talking to others, including folks who look at things fairly coldly. It was not primary (whose hands are truly clean?) but, did read “The Arms of Krupp”–concentration camp scene while in labor. The plant appears to be a done deal–the money can be found elsewhere. If better schools are as good an incentive as tax breaks, why not invest in improving education for widespread benefit. A similar point was made at the Good Jobs First website. ttp://www.goodjobsfirst.org/news/article.cfm?id=137

By: Don

Don — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:53:03 +0000

As a rule of thumb if The Montgomery Advertiser urges voters to vote one way if I have any doubts at all about how to vote, I vote the other way. Will someone please bring a real NEWSpaper to Montgomery?