Alaska Ping!
Posted on 10/18/2016 8:14:34 AM PDT by Coronal
Alaskans won’t find any information about Donald Trump in their voter’s guide this year, after the GOP presidential nominee's campaign failed to submit biographical data and a candidate statement.
The voter guide, which hit mailboxes this weekend, includes candidate statements from Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, Green Party nominee Jill Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, the Constitution Party nominee and an independent candidate. But state elections officials say the Trump campaign and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson did not submit materials ahead of an Aug. 30 deadline.
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Alaska Ping!
Is the voting population leaning Dem or REP this year?
“Gary Johnson did not submit materials...”
Alaska???
What’s Alaska?
Oopsie.
Alaska is a very red state.
What’s Alaska?
The place where all the Hippies go to live off the land
And we’ll find it was an oversight of the Alaska Voters guide people. Who were they?? A little searching is in order.
I am a supporter of VOTER GUIDES. However, the vast majority of candidates do not answer the questionnaires pertaining to where they stand on their faith and where they stand on the social issues. Incumbents conveniently leave the information out of their government pages and campaign websites.
WE THE PEOPLE need to push them to declare their positions.
Is that code for “never trumper” state? Because this was obviously not an accident. Typical Alaskan skullduggery. Does anyone remember the Primary?
It may be RED but if the Murkowski-forced-write-in-against-Joe-Miller debacle is any indication, it's also loyal to the elitists.
How the hell can you have a voters guide without Trump in it??
“How the hell can you have a voters guide without Trump in it??”
Without the candidate submitting a bio and position statements to the Voter Guide, it is difficult to print the candidate’s bio and positions in the Voter Guide.
Huh, what’s a voter’s guide? Sounds like a waste of tax dollars. As if you can’t find anything you ever wanted to know and then some about anyone on the internet. As if Trump hasn’t been a public figure for the past 40 years.
Is there a state party campaign office in Alaska?
Isnt this their responsibility?
Is there anyone who hasn’t heard of Donald Trump?
Not as red as it used to be. Sadly.
The government has made great inroads here.
We need an incontrovertible, un-deniable process to assure we know where elected representatives stand on the basic, foundational aspects of civilization, and how capable they are at maintaining a lawful, proper government.
Here's a proposal I've nicknamed "Absolute Sunset". It's a charter or Constitution-level change, and it can be implemented as needed at the local, state, and federal level. The basic premise is to require a regular public re-affirmation by elected representatives of every law, regulation, directive, edict, proscription, whatever you call the rule-making artifact. This would take place at the beginning of every legislative session, with no discussion or debate, just an affirmation required with the same required majority from the original body required to pass the original bill. The order of the list of items should be in the reverse of the original precedence of enactment, allowing newer items superseding the older to be removed first. The term for which the affirmation (including the original passage) is valid should be at least the term of two sessions, but on beginning of the third session, the affirmation should be required. If the affirmation fails, then the object expires at the end of the legislative session unless re-instated in full as originally written during the session. In addition, all precedent and other derivative aspects of government founded on the failed object should be completely discarded so as to clean it out of the system completely. An act of repeal should be limited to the repeal and be equivalent to a failure of affirmation.
Then and only then would you know what interests your elected representatives truly represent, because they would be on the spot every single session for the basics of the government. Should they fail to preserve the laws, it will be evident. Should they prefer to let a bad law stand, it will be so evident. Since the schedule of what will be put to the question is fixed, every election will offer an opportunity for the candidate to pledge their affirmation, so it will a subject of contention during the election. And it will be entirely clear as to whether they keep their promises or stand by their principles.
This will also have the benefit of cleaning up the books over time so that the dead hand of failed and unpopular laws and regulations will not strangle us for generations.
Red turning light purple, maybe.
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