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Election Day is just around the corner. I’m ready. Are you?
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ^ | October 19, 2018 | Lily Eskelsen García, President of the National Education Associ

Posted on 10/19/2018 5:21:52 PM PDT by mdittmar

I’ll never forget the first time I voted.

It was way back in the, ahem, 20th century. I remember how proud I was to finally carrying out my civic duty and vote. I actually decided before Election Day to be a volunteer on one of the campaigns.  A great man, Senator Frank Moss, had led the fight on so many issues I cared about: Medicare, Social Security, assistance for hospice care, money for special education. I signed up to help him.

He’d been in the Senate for 18 years. His challenger’s platform was pretty much that 18 years was too long to serve the good people of Utah. That candidate, Orrin Hatch, won. The same Orrin Hatch who has now been in office for 42 years. But that subject is for another time.

I was bitterly disappointed that my candidate did not win, but it just helped to mold me into the civic tsunami I became. I learned that the race is won by the people who show up and who get other people to show up.

(Excerpt) Read more at lilysblackboard.org ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; biglabor; nea; unionvote
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Well,yes I am lilly.

By the way,

How did 2016 turn out for ya;)

1 posted on 10/19/2018 5:21:52 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Early voting here starts Monday morning. I know where I will be.


2 posted on 10/19/2018 5:24:38 PM PDT by BipolarBob (ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.)
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This year, I’m so ready that I’m voting early. Straight GOP except for one Independent vote against P Bush.


3 posted on 10/19/2018 5:24:53 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: mdittmar

NEA = NIA = National Indoctrination Association


4 posted on 10/19/2018 5:33:25 PM PDT by Wuli (u)
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To: mdittmar

We’re all revved up and ready to kick the crap out of the RATS from coast to coast!


5 posted on 10/19/2018 5:34:55 PM PDT by dowcaet
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I didn’t want to create a post, but was watching Lou Dobbs who is as strident pro Trump as you can get. He reported with Ed Rollins that the House is close to lost, and the Senate wasn’t much better. Looked like we are on track to maybe pickup or lose 1 to 3 Senate seats. It was not a positive forecast.


6 posted on 10/19/2018 5:36:07 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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We shall see.


7 posted on 10/19/2018 5:37:15 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Just filled out and sent back our requests for absentee ballots since we have no way to get to the polls.


8 posted on 10/19/2018 5:39:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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I think we pick up 3-5 in the Senate and hold the House.

Whatever the results, the Dems are going to be more berserk than ever.

Hunker down and keep your powder dry, folks.


9 posted on 10/19/2018 5:40:27 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: bgill

“Straight GOP except for one Independent vote against P Bush.”

But he’s the real conservative Bush ... I mean this time, for real, he’s the one true conservative you have to vote for if we are ever going to have a chance to win anything!

Signed,

GOPe Fearmonger

:-P /s


10 posted on 10/19/2018 5:40:39 PM PDT by edh
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I’m ready and it scares the liberals to death.


11 posted on 10/19/2018 5:41:47 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (EVERYONE IS UNIQUE! JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Got my ballot in the Mailbox today:)


12 posted on 10/19/2018 5:41:48 PM PDT by mdittmar
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I phoned the Supervisor Of Elections this afternoon. She said my mail in ballot would be mailed out by 5:00 P.M.


13 posted on 10/19/2018 5:43:02 PM PDT by yarddog
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pelosi heckled in florida
14 posted on 10/19/2018 5:48:28 PM PDT by Bon mots
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It’s fun watching the tears flow at the Javits Center from 2016, but it’s time for new tears from Liberals.


15 posted on 10/19/2018 5:51:02 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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Our ballots went in the city hall drop box today. It’s all mail-n voting here in Washington but our rural mail carrier has a “co-exist” bumper sticker on her Jeep. She’s very nice and all that, but...


16 posted on 10/19/2018 5:51:39 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Williams

Typical Ed Rollins gloom and doom.


17 posted on 10/19/2018 5:53:48 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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Image result for coexist bumper sticker with guns

Was it this one?

18 posted on 10/19/2018 5:54:10 PM PDT by Publius
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As an invading army heads for our border, ABSOLUTELY


19 posted on 10/19/2018 5:56:01 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: mdittmar

I already voted!


20 posted on 10/19/2018 5:57:07 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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