[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: November 2008 Endorsements - Round 1

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
November 2008 Endorsements  - Round 1
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1223861840.shtml


   Two easy ones:
   Vote NO on the Constitutional Amendment for a 3/8 ppt increase in the
   Sales Tax, allegedly for the Environment and "the Arts." It's bad law
   and ultimately doesn't really fund the Environment. It simply frees up
   General Fund revenue for pork projects, just like massive vetoed and
   overriden Transit Tax bill did.
   Re-elect Norm Coleman for U.S. Senate. This is easy only because the
   DFL is running one of its worst candidates ever in Al Franken. Besides
   being a proven jerk, liar, ruffian, and scofflaw, he has no applicable
   experience. He has hidden his many failings behind a facade of
   continuous sneering of his intellectual betters.
   And one more to again rile my readers:
   Vote YES on District 281 Question 1. This is a gentler, kinder version
   of the Operating Levy of November 2007 that went down. [1]I voted yes
   on this because I feel that School Boards as elected bodies should be
   able to set the levy directly like the city and county - and face the
   electoral consequences. (Unelected boards like the Met Council should
   be stripped of all such authority.) Voting no never results in the
   cuts such voters would themselves make anyway. Again I say, let's hold
   the kids harmless while the adults sort this out.

References

   1. http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1193104304.shtml