Primary for Governor and State Treasurer - Who are you voting for and why?

[Jonsey]

Thank you. This was very helpful to read.

[CS1983]

For treasurer I went with Everett. While he doesn't have the huge-business background of Watson, he is highly conservative with a record and recognition as such, has enough time in the Capitol to know the political reindeer games, and has a paper trail to show he can read large, confusing documents with numbers in them (MBA and JD). I'm not keen on the fact that Watson is pumping so much of his own money into the campaign and given his business background wonder what ulterior motive he has.

Lawrence was a non-starter for me. She seemed to not have many interviews, often noted as failing to get back to the interviewers, and her website is a canned piece of aesthetically pleasing junk (low on content).

[Skip]

Good thread!!!

[Vic Tory]

Please let us know if you get the ballots.

Yeah, I was registered with that party, didn't get anything, so I've gone and switched to Unaffiliated out of curiosity if I'll receive a ballot now (since I think I'm doing this before the deadline). If not, no big.

I've been a member of the CP for six years. They talk a great game but they don't DO anything substantive. The CP keeps choosing the worst possible candidates and in many states (particularly my state of Colorado) their leadership is ... absent.

I've taken to calling the CP the party of grumpy old men. They have no real plan. They cry poverty. They post diatribes against the GOP, but don't do anything to advance their cause.

The Federalist Party has a plan ... publishes it ... and is following it. I have more confidence in them than my (present) registration of CP.

[CS1983]

So I just checked out their (federalist) official page. I'm not keen on a few things:

1) The name. Do they intend to essentially rebirth the same ideals? Where did they get us the first time?
2) Due to their ambiguity of future platforms, it seems open to an injection of political poison
3) They use language which seems to necessitate a very involved Federal government (should I be surprised, given the name?), instead of the more solid method of subsidiarity (wherein each level/sphere deals with its own issues unless it cannot[thus kicking it up the chain]; no encroachment from higher into lower without necessity, and no usurpation of higher sphere issues by lower spheres). Such a method as subsidiarity lessens the bloat as one goes "up".

They seem to have a Libertarian bent (which has moral problems), and further they seem to confuse not only the ability, but the duty, of the Federal government to enforce, with red hot 240B barrels if necessary, that states will NOT violate Constitutional Rights.

[CS1983]

~600 morons removed themselves from deciding anything... lol

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (The Gazette) - Nearly 600 unaffiliated voters in El Paso County returned ballots for Republican and Democratic primaries, an error that disqualifies each of the ballots

As of Friday morning, 595 of the county's roughly 140,000 unaffiliated voters had turned in ballots for both primaries - despite four different reminders printed on ballots and envelopes that voters should only mark and return one ballot, according to the County Clerk and Recorder's Office.

By state law, none of those ballots can be counted, said county Clerk Chuck Broerman.

For the first time this year, unaffiliated Colorado voters can cast ballots in either the Democratic or Republican primary. Secretary of State Wayne Williams kicked off a Colorado-wide campaign in the spring to educate unaffiliated voters about the change.

"I hate to see even one person's vote not count," said Broerman, whose office has also repeatedly publicized that unaffiliated voters were to receive both parties' ballots in the mail this year, but could vote in only one.

http://www.kktv.com/content/news/Hun...485721261.html

[Skip]

~600 morons removed themselves from deciding anything... lol

[snip]

I'm okay with this.

Another reason we should go back to physical polling places with ID. If you can't/won't present yourself to cast a valid ballot, in English, you really shouldn't be voting. Property ownership would be a even better qualifier.

I got my local Douglas county choices made! Ready to mail this out today.

[cstone]

I didn't get a ballot, but I didn't expect one because I'm registered with the Black Panther Party.

It took me quite some time to establish residency in Wakanda. It cost me all the vibranium I earned in a year.

[Vic Tory]

What parts on www.TheFederalistParty.org 's website gave you these ideas? (Another political group attempted to (quite literally) steal The Federalist Party from the original organizers. They almost succeeded. But if you're not on the site linked above, you're not seeing The Federalist Party.

So I just checked out their (federalist) official page. I'm not keen on a few things:

1) The name. Do they intend to essentially rebirth the same ideals? Where did they get us the first time?
2) Due to their ambiguity of future platforms, it seems open to an injection of political poison
3) They use language which seems to necessitate a very involved Federal government (should I be surprised, given the name?), instead of the more solid method of subsidiarity (wherein each level/sphere deals with its own issues unless it cannot[thus kicking it up the chain]; no encroachment from higher into lower without necessity, and no usurpation of higher sphere issues by lower spheres). Such a method as subsidiarity lessens the bloat as one goes "up".

They seem to have a Libertarian bent (which has moral problems), and further they seem to confuse not only the ability, but the duty, of the Federal government to enforce, with red hot 240B barrels if necessary, that states will NOT violate Constitutional Rights.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I was not impressed by any of the candidates except for Polis. He is a very polished politician, but obviously not a single position I agree with.

I just hope that silly twat Donna Lynne doesn't get ANY votes.

I voted for Donna Lynne for this very reason (with my wife's vote). I do NOT want Polis in. He is the one that scares me most. Let's drop him in the primaries and deal with the BS of whomever later.