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Okay, I have tried to stop criticizing other people for their musical tastes years ago. My opinion is if you want to listen to crappy music, and you like it, that is your prerogative. But why does STYX consistently show up here, and a bunch middle-aged white Republicans show up to this crap?
Oh, wait a minute . . .
While SOS Gant and other state auditors are pushing for E-Poll books (purchased from the same companies that give money to their campaigns and PACs) I am a bit leary after reading stories like this;
State election officials plan to look at the histories of voters who participated in the Republican primary in Davidson County this month to help determine if voters were routinely given the GOP ballot by default.
Mark Goins, the state’s elections coordinator, said Tuesday that he wants to figure out if Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall’s experience was isolated or common. Advocacy group Tennessee Citizen Action announced publicly Monday what Goins had known for 11 days: that Hall, an elected Democrat, had voted in the Republican primary after poll officials failed to give him a choice.
While they go on to talk about how this may have been ‘operator error’ I say ‘hogwash’. If we implement E-Poll books you could see all kinds of wiggle room for election officials to manipulate the vote. You must also take into account that the very companies that sell this computer equipment and software give money to elected officials that run our elections. That in itself is scary as all-get-out.
H/T – B.J.
Not only are taxpayers subsidizing the landscaping and spray park along the river for a privately developed hotel the developers got a TIF to boot. And who approved this project before it went on to the city council? The parks board of course in which the wife and co-owner of the development company building the hotel belongs as a board member.
But hey, there is no conflicts of interest here, move along, nothing to see.
I will go on the record and say that I am not opposed to an indoor public pool, a few years ago I would have said no way, but with the construction of the Sanford Sports Complex and with the SF School District paying out millions in salaries to ‘administrators’. I have no doubt the city is ready for such a facility, and the school district can afford to pony up (even though several private ones already exist that you can pay a fee to use, just like a public pool).
There are two things that I would like to see explored first before building an indoor public pool at Spellerberg;
1) A possible partnership with the Sanford Sports Complex and building the facility there attached to one of the other entities (Like the Pentagon or the Hockey facility).
2) A partnership with the School District to build an indoor pool at either one or all of the high schools.
Recently, all knowing, and all wise, city councilor Erpenbach said in an Argus Leader interview we couldn’t build at the high schools because of ‘liability issues’. You mean like the liability public schools have to risk with other sports like football, wrestling, basketball, volleyball and even cheerleading, because, you know, they are all less dangerous then swimming. Nice try Michelle, but I am not buying your excuse.
The facility could easily be split up during school hours so that city staff would monitor one side and the school district would monitor the other side. This isn’t rocket science and I’m sure former law partner with Davenport-Evans, Sue Simons, Vice-Super, could draw up a plan.
What concerns me even more is the vendetta the Argus Leader, or at least it’s publisher has with the Drake Springs outdoor pool advocates. Calling their petition drive and election a ‘fiasco’. So much for democracy and the fourth estate protecting that democracy.
All I have ever asked from elected officials is to be honest and to use common sense. The stand alone public pool at Spellerberg makes no sense, and our elected officials, and even our local newspaper are not being honest about the cost. Looks like another ‘fiasco’ will have to occur to put this on the right course.
The SOS story is the South Dakota version of a 37 state effort to control our elections. This linked national article is the crux of what we are trying to highlight in the ongoing Gant-Gate story. Jason Gant as SOS is the conduit to make the strategy happen. Moderate Republicans and the Democratic Party don’t want to understand or admit it is happening. Their cute Facebook and other social media games make it appear they are active. Their efforts are nothing more than busy work with no election day results. The GOP moderates and Dems in general will lose, because nothing beats the organized hard work of long-term finding of voters, getting out their vote and fighting every SOS rule proposed to be implemented.
The ownership of our person, property and our right to vote are at stake. Keep in mind these 3 combined strategies the corporatists are using to dominate and own us. Everything else done by the opponents of the GOP (Greedy Old People) is window dressing.
Strategies:
1. lie and make it appear that they support prosperity for all Americans
2. make appeals to racism and dividing the white working class (union vs. non-union)
3. suppressing the vote
As we have discussed, the efforts are so broad based everything must be challenged. In the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Fight everything, every day, in every way with everything in the arsenal of legal methods. The fight requires us the people to research everything, question everything, leave nothing to the better natures of ‘man’. The average person will only win by banding together as a movement to put the masters back into their place out of our lives.
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