Yikes! I nearly missed this one despite the best efforts of friends like Bruce and James (thanks guys). If you live in Prince William County, Occoquan District and are registered to vote, you are eligible to vote in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Corey Stewart (who is now a Chairman) as […]
Virginia holds elections every year. Typically federal offices are done on even years just like the rest of the country; but state office elections are held on odd years. In 2007 there will be re-elections for all the House of Delegates seats and all the State Senator seats.
In protest over the bigotry of the Marshall/Newman amendment to Virginia’s constitution, and in support of all our gay and lesbian friends, Erci and I have decided to stop calling each other husband and wife. Henceforth we shall call each other domestic partner instead, and we shall introduce each other to people we meet as […]
Just got back from a very long day working as an Elections Officer at Mullen Precinct in Prince William County, Virginia. We started preparing the voting place at 5:00 am and finally called in our statement of results at around 10:00 pm. We had 1063 registered voters cast their ballots, and one provisional voter. In […]
Josh Marshall says it quite succinctly on Talking Points Memo: Only one party has a nationwide campaign to deliver millions of intentionally-harassing calls disguised to appear that they’re from the opposite party. That party is the Republican party. And the calls are funded by the NRCC — the House GOP election committee. It’s the party […]
Cory Capron has a very lucid examination of the terminology being used by both proponents and opponents of the Marshall/Newman amendment. The terms he examines are bigotry (often cited by opponents) and polygamy (often cited by proponents). Cory’s sets aside all emotion and examines the terms and tries to find logic supporting or opposing either […]
Last night, Erci and I went down to a firestation off Yates Ford Road to attending training for how to be an election officer on election day. We’ve decided to help the county run the election this year. Every year pretty much every county in the state is short-handed for volunteers to work the election. […]
Devin writes about how voting sucks, and he has a point. Many aspects of our democracy cry for massive improvement. I get that people are pissed off with their so-called leaders in government. I agree that the currect collection of buffoons needs to be replaced. So how do we create change if we care? I […]
Last night I was released early from work to sleep for this morning’s big install at work (that went well, BTW). Instead of resting, I went over to Judy Feder‘s campaign HQ and spent four hours stuffing, sealing, and stamping envelopes; then sorting contribution sheets and doing research online. It was fun, and I can […]
This clip is so good and so sharp that I doubt the usual campaigns are behind it. Simply awesome! Hat tip to Todd Smyth for the link.
