{"id":188316,"date":"2010-10-22T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/22\/i-just-voted\/"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T14:58:00","slug":"i-just-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/22\/i-just-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Voted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland has a week of early voting, and since I will not be in town on Nov 2, I voted.<\/p>\n<p>I voted straight Democratic Party, except for Barbara Milulski, because of her vote on the telecom immunity bill.  I wrote in my Congressman, John Cardin (D).<\/p>\n<p>When I said that <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/damn-telco-amnesty-and-surveillance.html\">she would never get my vote again<\/a>, I meant it.<\/p>\n<p>As to various constitutional amendments, state and county:<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>I voted no on question 1, which would have required a constitutional convention every 20 years.  This is a recipe for mischief and mayhem.<\/li>\n<li>I voted no on question 2, which would have raised the bar for a jury in a civil trial from $10,000 to 15,000.<\/li>\n<li>Voted against requiring that Orphans\u2019 Court judges be members of the Maryland Bar.  It&#8217;s a lay court, and has been for over 200 years, and the Maryland Bar is a private organization, and I do not believe that a private organization, particularly one as insular and secretive as the Bar should determine this.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>As a corollary, I oppose the use of private bars for licensing of lawyers period.  It should be public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The county wants to change its charter to force binding arbitration and a no strike clause on its workers.  I voted no.  (It will probably win though, since arbitration sounds fair, and the no strike section is at the end, where people will not see it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I am not a bystander in the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland has a week of early voting, and since I will not be in town on Nov 2, I voted. I voted straight Democratic Party, except for Barbara Milulski, because of her vote on the telecom immunity bill. I wrote in my Congressman, John Cardin (D). When I said that she would never get my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}