“Voters in Arizona have sided with science and compassion while dealing yet another blow to our nation’s cruel and irrational prohibition on marijuana,” said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project.—Rob Kampia
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.—Ninth Amendment
(CBS/AP) If opponents of medical marijuana thought voters in Arizona would defeat Proposition 203, they must have been smoking something.
On Saturday, Arizonans narrowly approved the measure, which will legalize weed for people with certain diseases.
Final vote tallies showed that Prop 203 won by a tiny margin of just 4,341 votes out of more than 1.67 million votes counted.
Continue reading “Prop 203 Passes: Medical Marijuana to Be Legal in Arizona” »
Candidates in Afghanistan’s September parliamentary elections are angry it is taking so long to declare the results. They accuse electoral officials of deliberately delaying the announcement while they rig the outcome, a charge the authorities deny.
Analysts say anger over the poll is growing and presents a threat to the country’s political stability. Bilal Sarwary reports from Kabul.
BBC News
Chanting slogans and carrying banners written in Pashto, Dari and English, the protesters demanded that the attorney general’s office investigate their claims.
The demonstrators accused the Independent Election Commission (IEC), which organised the 18 September poll, of stealing their votes and manipulating the outcome of the elections.
Continue reading “Afghan anger over ‘rigged’ parliamentary vote” »
November 07, 2010|By Shane Goldmacher | Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Mike Murphy, chief strategist to Meg Whitman, blamed public-employee unions and California’s status as “a very blue state” for the GOP gubernatorial candidate’s loss to Democrat Jerry Brown on Tuesday, even as she spent a national record $142 million of her own money trying to beat him.
Voters rebuffed Whitman and the entire GOP ticket in California, as the party lost every statewide race — with one, for attorney general, still too close to call — while Republicans swept into power across the nation.
LA Times
SEE ALSO: LA Times: Three things Brown should not do
When conducting a search for this article, one of the results was, “New cholera threat…Olbermann to return.” Not sure if Olbermann is being held responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti, but the 9&10 News web site in Michigan reports:
NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Olbermann of MSNBC will be back on the air Tuesday, after being suspended indefinitely for making political donations to three candidates. MSNBC’s CEO says two days off the air is “appropriate.” NBC News forbids employees from making political donations unless given an exception in advance.
Olbermann returns to his Countdown show Tuesday which transformed MSNBC into the socialist network of the stars. For a short time, however, MSNBC was able to shut him up. He had no comment on the suspension.
Guests on the Nightly Business Report, airing on PBS nightly, are required to disclose when they own certain stocks that they are recommending or discounting. Although I strongly support Olbermann in this matter based on his First Amendment right and his general right to believe in Communism if he wishes, it would not be a bad idea to require media personalities to disclose which campaigns they donate to, especially when they are covering those campaigns in their newscasts.
The RAW Story
Connect-the-Dots: The Demonization Of The Tea Party Movement
The people of the Great State of Kentucky obviously did not buy into the Aqua-budda story the media plagued Republican Rand Paul with. Or they did not care. Despite the efforts of the Republican party in that State, Dr. Rand Paul will be their next Senator.
The Republican told NBC’s “Today” show that while people “complain a lot about gridlock,” the most fiscally conservative government “is always divided government.” (Washington Post)
Perhaps it will take an ophthalmologist to help the Senate see the Constitution more clearly.
Overall, however, the Republicans did not make the sweeping change of the House. Reid pulled off victory in the Senate, but at least Nanny Pelosi learned what it is like to loose a job.
Updated 5:55 am
With three precincts to report, these are the results of the propositions.
Proposition 106
The health care issue.
Passing
PASSED
Proposition 107
Measure concerning quotas.
Passing
PASSED
Proposition 109
To change the Constitution to guarantee hunting and fishing.
Failing
FAILED
Proposition 110
Change the Constitution relating to State trust lands.
Passing, but too close to call.
FAILING by about 5,000 votes.
Proposition 111
Ken Bennett won’t get to be Lieutenant Governor. He’ll just have to settle for Secretary of State. Pays the same.
Failing
FAILED
Proposition 112
To change initiatives so they have to be filed six-months prior to an election vice four-months.
Passing, but too close to call.
FAILING by about 2,000 votes.
Proposition 113
Secret ballot for Unions, but not for you, the voter.
Passing
PASSED
Proposition 203
Medical use of marijuana.
Failing, but too close to call.
FAILING by about 3,000 votes.
Proposition 301
To transfer land conservation funds to the general fund.
Failing. Probably will fail.
FAILED
Proposition 302
To terminate Early Childhood Development program.
Failing. Probably will fail.
FAILED
PLEASE NOTE: We are continually updating this article as we find news until I get tired enough to go to bed.
Arizona is only barely fortunate that we are saddled with McCain for another six-years over Rodney Glassman. The overwhelming victory appears to be 59% to 35%. Libertarian David Nolan picked up 5%.
It looks like Gosar will take the seat in the House from Kirkpatrick. Currently 52% to 41%.
On the local front it appears that tax-and-spend Brewer wins out over sanctuary Terry in a closer race 56% to 41%. Apparently Barry Hess confused people in the Gubernatorial Debates by referring frequently to some old document.
Nationally, Fox News is reporting that Feingold was ousted and CNN reports Reid is gone, but Californians may still keep Boxer.
The House looks to be overwhelmingly Republican while they seem to be loosing the Senate.
1. Huffington Post—Arizona Election Results: John McCain Defeats Rodney Glassman In 2010 Senate Race
2. Fox News—Johnson Topples Liberal Sen. Feingold in Wisconsin
3. Coconino County Election Results
Did you wear your Tea Shirt? I forgot my Don’t Tread on Me Ball cap. Sa la vie.
If there is any indicator in Williams as to the importance of this election, this is it. I had to wait for a voting booth to open up. I all of my voting over the years, I haven’t had to wait for a booth.
Proposition 113 had to be the most hypocritical of all of the initiatives. We were voting on whether or not union ballots should be secret. First off, unions are a communist construct inconsistent with the Constitution. Second, we were voting on whether their ballots should be secret while the ballot we were voting on is not. Coconino County can reconstruct how you voted. So I guess I’ll see you on Obama’s “enemy list” if you did not vote Democrat.
According to our about-as-scientific-as-ASU poll, Rodney Glassman will be our next Senator. I hope that is in error.
Party strategists funnel donations from nonprofits into attack ads, records show
While President Obama and other Democrats have excoriated Republican “front groups” for using secret money to pay for attack ads, the party’s political committees have begun doing something similar: collecting cash from outside nonprofit groups that don’t disclose their contributors and using the money to pay for negative campaign commercials, campaign records show.
One group, Patriot Majority PAC — a Democratic political committee that has run a hard-hitting $1.7 million attack ad campaign against Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for Harry Reid’s Senate seat in Nevada — has gotten one of its largest donations, $250,000, from a left-leaning nonprofit that doesn’t release the names of any of its contributors, the records show.
Another newly formed political committee, America’s Families First Action Fund, which is running negative commercials against Republicans in House races across the country, recently got $1 million from a closely related nonprofit affiliate, the records show. Both organizations were set up over the summer by Democratic strategists, who emphasized in a memo to donors that contributions to the nonprofit could be kept anonymous.
By Jess Bravin
Wall Street Journal
October 27, 2010, 7:00 AM ET
What is it about the Supreme Court and unwelcome phone calls?
At 1 a.m. Monday, phones rang in thousands of Nevada households to deliver a message from retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
The O’Connor calls came just weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, left a voicemail for Anita Hill, seeking an apology for testifying in 1991 that Justice Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked under him in the Reagan administration. (Ms. Hill called the message “inappropriate” and reaffirmed her testimony.)
Justice O’Connor’s call didn’t involve anything so intimate, however. Her recorded message urged voters to approve Question 1, which would change the way state judges are selected.
Justice O’Connor didn’t assume the issue was keeping Nevadans up all night. Rather, the Yes on 1 campaign said, the calls were supposed to hit at 1 p.m. The robocall contractor blew it, and was fired, the campaign said.
Currently, the state’s district judges and Supreme Court justices run for office like other politicians. Under Question 1, the governor would fill judicial vacancies by choosing from a list the state Commission on Judicial Selection compiled, based on “qualifications and experience.” Voters would weigh in at the next election; newly appointed judges would approval from 55% of voters to keep the job.
“Don’t let the Tea Party fool you. A lot of voters are skeptical of the two major political parties, but most aren’t ready for a third party yet,” the Rasmussen Reports article begins. Like most Americans, they view the Republican usurped “Tea Party” instead of the grassroots efforts by the Libertarians who started it. The Rasmussen Reports poll shows, though, that many are turning to a Libertarian frame of mind which has to be disconcerting to Democrats and Republican parties.
A plurality (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters believes that neither Democrats nor Republicans in Congress are the party of the American people, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Nearly as many see a need for a new third party.
38% think Republicans and Democrats are so much alike that an entirely new party is needed to represent the American people. Fifty percent (50%) say a new third party is not needed. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided. This marks little change from the first time Rasmussen Reports asked this question in early February.
Those who are upset over this “two-party system” are in good company. George Washington warned against it in his farewell speech as he left office after two terms as President.
SEE ALSO: Poll: One-third may still switch candidates
Freedom of speech is “improper electioneering.”
…Owens said she remains convinced that the T-shirt at issue does amount to improper electioneering. And Owens pointed out that the injunction she agreed to applies only to next month’s election — and only this particular shirt — with no legal ruling on what happens after that.
PHOENIX — A federal judge has ordered that Coconino County reisdents be allowed to wear tea party T-shirts when they vote next month.
But what happens elsewhere at polling places in Arizona remains in legal limbo. And it still leaves in question whether such attire is proper.
The order by U.S. District Court Judge James Teilborg specifically bars Coconino County Recorder Candace Owens or any of her election workerss from blocking Diane Wickberg from voting while attired in her shirt proclaiming “Flagstaff Tea Party — Reclaiming Our Constitution Now.” Anyone else with the same shirt also cannot be barred from going to vote on Nov. 2.
Diane Cohen, an attorney for the Goldwater Institute which represents Wickberg, said the injunction is a preliminary victory. She said the fact the ruling legally affects only Coconino County does not mean election officials elsewhere are free to impose their own election-day clothing decisions.
Members of what US conservatives call the “mainstream media” know they are viewed as opponents by the Tea Party movement. But few expect to be handcuffed when they turn up at campaign events.
However bizarre in its particulars, the arrest on Sunday of Tony Hopfinger, a journalist, by security guards working for Joe Miller, Alaska’s Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for the Senate, was an incident waiting to happen.
Continue reading “Tea Party gets tough with foes in media” »
Loading ...
Williams TEA Party rss
