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Polls open from 7 AM to 8 PM
Submitted by Ray Murphy on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 1:01pm.
In addition to Dan's post, check out the endorsed Liberty City candidates and see a brief description of the offices they seek here:
Judges really, really matter by the way. Find your polling place here.
Hey Philly For Change people
We were wowed by Diane Thompson, Angeles Roca, Dan Anders, and Dawn Segal at Meetup.
Let's close the deal and get these good people on the bench!
One of our own, Seth Williams, is on the brink of becoming District Attorney! Let's be there for him!
Let's stop right wing extremist State Senator Jane Orie's sister from getting on the Supreme Court! Support Jack Panella!
Support all the Liberty City judges. I did.
If you can help out today, contact me at samuel.durso@gmail.com or (267) 307-8821.
See you at Meetup tomorrow!
Thanks!
On a state level - for Commonwealth Court - Erensberger
Also came out to PFC meetup, which seemed impressive for a grass-rootsy Pittsburgher. Also made a big point of talking about her history of working with the Steel City Stonewall Dems. She seemed like a real salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar but socially progressive type.
http://www.ernsbergerforjudge.com/
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
where's Dan's post?
where's Dan's post? I'm looking to see what people are saying re: judges.
Well he was part of the Lawyer's Guild board
So I assume his input was included in their recommendations in this other thread.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
I read through that and the
I read through that and the Liberty City guide, as well as your and Sam Durso's notes. The NLG guide is very detailed.
It's pretty amazing how important the judgeships are, and how little the electorate at large knows about how they perform their duties. I rely on these guides to help give me some information.
Marc Stier's notes on redistricting and the Supreme Court
are also well worth a glance. I quoted them here. I know you mentioned it but Marc Stier explains the redistricting issue very succintly and clearly.
I agree that whether the deciding vote on the Supreme Court in terms of redistricting in 2010 is someone who resorts to Glenn Beck style "Obama is a Communist" ads is really, really important.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
Also polls may (or may not) be extended to 9pm
because of the SEPTA strike, according to Philly Clout.
The Commissioner's argument against it seems troubling to me.
I get the "technical difficulties"/extra-hour-of-work argument but I have a real problem with the idea that one more hour for working people in transit-dependent Philly to vote after a sudden strike is "unfair" to other voters in the state. Don't we want to encourage maximum participation in the process everywhere? There may be overwhelming practical considerations, I don't know, but it seems to me that "fairness" should always fall on the side of encouraging participation in the process.
Its part of why we call it a democracy. We want mothers working two jobs and ballancing daycare to vote also. Don't we?
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
Strike that, polls close at 8
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/cityhall/No_Late_Voting_Polls_Will_Cl...
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
Yes, another area the SEPTA
Yes, another area the SEPTA strike could impact--the election. Low turnout for Philadelphia will be a death knell to the statewide judges we want to elect. Thanks again, Willie Brown.
Whatever the cause
Turnout was positively pathetic in Philly yesterday. The economy, apathy, Phillies fever blocking out everything else, SEPTA strike.
Lots of polling places that saw turnout up in the neighborhood of 200 for the presidential election had turnout around 20 for the whole day yesterday from stories I've heard.
As a result, ultra-conservative yahoos angry at Obama the crypto Muslim-Communist-non-citizen-whatever in the rest of the state put anti-choice, anti-gay Joan Orie Melvin over the top in PA.
Can't say that Christie's win in NJ is a good bell weather for PA in 2010 either. Christie ran as bland and unspecific a campaign as possible "I'll cut your property taxes, just don't ask me how" and still won for not being the incumbent in a crummy economy. The Dem for Gov in PA has to run as an "outsider" and credible "reformer" if they are going to stand a decent chance next year, which is either good news or bad depending on who wins the primary.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
If the Christie win in
If the Christie win in Joisey showed anything, it was that the US political memory has decreased from 2 years to one. Basically, Christie ran on a platform of promising to do precisely what Bush did to wreck the US economy, + people acted as if they didn't remember this.
People get the government they deserve. Well, they clearly deserve a return to incompetent, destructive Bushite government in NJ + VA.
-Z