Doesn't look too badly Gerrymandered. You should see some of the ones in Texas, both before and after the recent (Republican) re-districting.
Georgia's 4th Congressional District
Posted on 07/21/2004 7:15:33 AM PDT by Mr. D
Cynthia McKinney (D) is headed back to Congress after the controversial five-term ex-lawmaker won a plurality in Georgia's 4th district primary Tuesday, avoiding what had been widely considered an all but inevitable runoff.
then, as a different angle on the same problem - why the HELL are utterly unrelated positions voted for on the same day?
Why must I be forced to choose a straight republican ticket in order to vote for my US Senatorial candidate-of-choice, and by doing so be forced to give up my ability to vote for local judges, county reps, sherrif, state reps, etc... ALL DEMOCRAT.
One way or another, this crap state of affairs needs to be changed, so that my ability to vote for whom I choose is NOT artificailly limited.
This is an absolute disgrace for the 4th in GA. If this can happen, anything can happen, and probably will.
Do you think the ACLU will take either of the two losers' case?
NOT!!!
The only answer I can give you is take a refresher coarse in American government and talk to someone over 40 who votes and remembers how it used to be in Ga.If you really think about it rather than deal with it emotionally the answer will come to you.
honey, if you want to have any chance of getting elected locally in Brooks County, you are a Democrat. PERIOD.
If you, as a voter, want to have any say in local politics, you vote Democrat in local elections. PERIOD.
The fact that this primary combined the selection of a US-Senate candidate and a large number of locally important candidates severely undermined "republican" turnout in this county. PERIOD.
There is NO REASON for this state of affairs, save machine-politics.
You think I'm going to be happy about it?
This crap state of affairs needs changing.
It was the same way in all 159 counties when Isakson and Coverdale started 30 years ago.I saw a very good county commissioner get beat in the republican primary because the senate race that year was Young against Cleland and the Gop either had 1 candidate or a looney.I can't remember which.
Times change.The Democrats have the same complaint you do in about 25 of the largest counties in the state.
I don't think so. As a Congres Critter she can do much more damage *to* the private economy, not to mention our rights and freedoms, than she ever could out in the "real world". The real world prunes the grossly incompetant, or at the very least punishes failure. The loony bin on the Hill often seems to reward it.
Doesn't look too badly Gerrymandered. You should see some of the ones in Texas, both before and after the recent (Republican) re-districting.
Georgia's 4th Congressional District
"then, as a different angle on the same problem - why the HELL are utterly unrelated positions voted for on the same day?"
you still haven't presented a valid reason for it.
the point, to me, from my Civics 101 point of view, is to allow the people the freedom to choose the best candidates for a specific list of jobs, not lock them into damned party machine politics.
what is more important to you:
Party clout, irrespective of getting the job DONE in a manner which is both constitutionally sound and in service to the entire constituency
-or-
Getting the job DONE in a manner which is both constitutionally sound and in service to the entire constituency, irrespective of Party clout?
since, presumably, this actually comes out of the State Budget, why not present it to the voters? It is our money, after all, and it can't cost THAT much.
Just heard the funniest bit on local Atlanta radio talk show "The Kimmer"
They had Tom Brokaw on the newsmaker line (parody). They had him saying Cynthia's acceptance speech last night started with:
"Ax not what you can do for al Qaeda, ax what al Qaeda can do for you"
The answer is easier ballot access in the general election for independent candidates not resticting the right of parties to nominate who they want and how they want to.When they make me king we will go back to smoke filled rooms and do away with presidential preference primaries.
Just run a good man for County Commissioner or sheriff on the Republican ticket. win a few general elections "build the party and they will come."
"since, presumably, this actually comes out of the State Budget, why not present it to the voters? It is our money, after all, and it can't cost THAT much."
hrmn... I don't give a flip what the parties want.
the parties had better learn to want what we the people tell 'em to want.
how would one best go about motivating the voters to make noise about this issue?
"Soon, it will be a Hip Hop World. I care what kind of world the Hip Hop Generation inherits." -Cynthia McKinney / June 15, 2004
"how would one best go about motivating the voters to make noise about this issue?"
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