Right now Virginia is in a statewide election. Because of the rules changes the Republicans used a convention to nominate their slate, rather than a state wide primary.
As a result you have the most wing nuttery slate of candidates on one side, and a sleazy businessman and fundraiser, a fairly decent guy (pediatric neurologist and Iraq vet), and a career pol. Given the radical right wing Republican slate, I'll go for corrupt and sleazy any day. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Democrats in Oregon aren't too bad, I could almost get behind them. My two > Senators, Wyden and Merkley, have been doing some good things. Wyden has > been pushing hard on the Senate Intelligence committee to expose the NSA > programs. I'm surprised they haven't targeted him yet. He must be pretty > clean. Merkley has pushing for filibuster reform and getting in the craw of > establishment Democrats and Republicans. He keeps pushing Reid hard and I > like to see that in a freshman. > > Governor and the state House and Senate are fairly moderate. They just had > a special session where they managed to push through a compromise "Grand > Bargain" deal that takes a whack out of public union pensions and raises > corporate taxes some. It manages to boost some early funding for schools > and reduce long term costs for the state, while giving pissing off anti-tax > folks and public union leaders and getting a grudging ok from business > leaders. Not perfect, by any means, but nice to see something meaningful > get pushed through with support by both parties. > > Given that, I tend to vote Democrat in-state. There are some Republicans > who are decent though. Unfortunately, they really don't have anyone with > leadership ability at the top and no real vision for what the party could > be. It's a pity, really. Oregon used to have some really worthwhile > Republicans. We'll see if it comes around again. > > Cheers, > Judah > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Justin Scott <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > I also believe that Libertarians, much like the Tea Party, have a > > > fundamental dislike of government that makes it pretty much impossible > to > > > govern effectively. You can't really hate your job and do it > effectively. > > > There must be some positive vision of the power of your office and I > > think > > > that they fundamentally lack it. > > > > Indeed, that's a good way to sum in up. I used to be a Big L, card > > carrying member of the LP but I'm actually registered republican now > > (believe it or not) but vote independent of party affiliation. > > > > > > -Justin > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367812 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
