Son of Timatollah

Submitted for your perusal, the sample ballot that Mack and I marked up and used in the voting booth yesterday during early voting. The simple rules:

1. "Hold your nose and vote the straight Democratic ticket." (Thanks to Joe Fineman's mom.)
2. Keep judges appointed by Lawton Chiles; dump judges appointed by Jeb! (As with "Jeopardy!", the bang ('!') is part of the name.)
3. Locally, it's probably best to get some fresh blood in. George Coleman's a fine man, but he's had his chance. Given the (lack of) response to the TS Fay flooding, I don't see why we would keep him. Similarly with the City Council Seat 3 election.

In the weeds, we voted against the local option tax for community colleges, because I think that localities shouldn't be able to differentially support post-secondary education unless they want to go all out and charter their own school. Community colleges in Florida are state-chartered schools, and if the state doesn't want to pony up the money to support them, then we'd better quit electing pro-stupidity keep-'em-dumb Republicans to the legislature.

Labels: 2008, early voting, sample ballot, vote