Poll on School Board Races
Cliff Mass has created an on-line poll about the School Board races. It is set up so you can only vote once. Not scientific but interesting to check out.
(Okay, so I had put a link but it only shows results. Hmm, could someone put up a link in the comments?)
(Okay, so I had put a link but it only shows results. Hmm, could someone put up a link in the comments?)
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If you supply a link to a poll you've already voted on to someone who hasn't yet voted, they'll get the list of candidates and checkboxes. When someone clicks the Vote button to submit their choices, they see the results.
Here's the EasyPolls.net link I supplied at 7:51AM on this blog.
signed - not taking these results as official
A poll as poorly conceived as this is worse than no poll at all.
bye bye
Felt pretty good - but wish I would have been more specific and told him why.
Maybe then he would reconsider listen to his constituency next time he holds public office - because that is the number one reason why he is not getting my vote. Talking to him throughout the school closures was like talking to a brick wall - he couldn't have been less interested in what the affected parents/families had to say.
Of course, they believe that we're dumb and they are smart. Well - I'm not too dumb to fill out a ballot and vote them out.
-Cautiously Hopeful
I want to elect someone who is RESPONSIVE TO CONSTITUENT NEEDS. Who the heck calls during dinner hour? The fact that she would set her system to do that is evidence to me she thinks she knows best, and "if she decides it's right" she's going to go with her decision, no matter what community input is.
Walked over to my neighbor's to pick up a kid a few minutes later, her phone rings, same call: as she's setting her meal on the table.
I may still vote for Marty despite this big incivility. Some of her positions I really like. What I don't like is this kind of hubris. Marty, if you are elected, I hope you will bring an attitude of open-mindedness to the possibility you are not always right, in addition to other skills I know you have.
Please Listen to Our Needs
Where do you get "hubris" out of that? Hubris would be a candidate not bothering to contact voters at all because they're so sure they're going to win. That's not the case here. At least Marty is trying to win your vote.
And I don't follow the logic of your next paragraph. Seems like quite a stretch to me. (Also, wouldn't walking to your neighbors' to pick up your kid in the middle of your dinner be a bigger interruption than Marty's call?)
I'm impressed that Marty has the wherewithal and campaign savvy to do these calls at all. Heck, that's the kind of "professionalism" someone like Lynne Varner at the Times would applaud.
The "Do Not Call" option, btw, doesn't apply to charitable and nonprofit organizations. That's a pretty big loophole that allows a lot of political organizations through.
Family life is very different than it used to be and I don't really know that there is a defined dinner hour for everyone anymore.
My husband doesn't even get home from work until 6:30pm-6:45pm -- so in order for us to have dinner together we eat late.
Suspect many families are like that.
If someone calls when we are eating dinner - we don't answer it - period.
I believe that your answering machine will pick up a Robo call so you can listen when it is more convenient for you.
Yes, those calls are a bother.
But Marty is a first time grass roots candidate with few friends in the community of wealth east of Seattle, who can afford to buy her cable TV ads (Harium & Peter) or slick mailings that huge donations can buy.
I hang up on recorded calls myself but I also read between the lines about who trys to buy elections with "out of district" or aristocratic money, and who rises from the community and fights against the well-heeled with only the proverbial "sling-shot" that a shoestring budget can afford.
Like negative campaigning, we all say we hate it, but we all know the talking points. If it didn't work, they wouldn't do it. WSDWG
The nice thing about robocalls is they leave a message and go away. Not like people who are hired to bug you until you say "No" six times.
Thought I'd throw Peter a sympathy vote to play with the "slope" but could'nt even go THAT far. And I've known him for years.
Familiarity breeds what again?