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Old 11-03-2010, 11:01 PM
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We lost our blue dog and he has been replaced with someone who wants to remove all illegal immigrants, give businesses tax breaks, and not tax individuals, and dismantle the Department of Education. Since our main business is agriculture, I'm not sure how that is going to keep going without the labor of undocumented workers; workers who spend their money here and aren't filing tax returns so they aren't getting money back so the state can use it. I guess his plan to provide jobs to Idaho is removing all the migrant workers and we can have those? There's also his support of nuclear power plants, as a way to have cheap energy we can sell to Oregon and California, but I guess he hasn't left the center of the universe (Boise metro area) because if he got on I-84 and headed west he'd see the massive amount of windmills in Oregon. I'd rather have some not so aesthetically pleasing windmills on an already fugly landscape than Chernobyl.

He also worked with the NRA to make gun ownership less stringent for the documented mentally ill, is a believer that marriage is between one man and one woman, and defending the rights of the unborn. Why are people who want less government so interested in what is going on in my bed, home, and my uterus? He is a total hater of Planned Parenthood (which doesn't provide abortion services here) but why not, as this means people can get sexual health needs privately or low cost and not on Obama Care. You think he'd be happy people are not being a drain on the economy but no, let's use our religious agenda to control others.

No other races in the state bothered me as much as this one. We got rid of Bill Sali the breast cancer hater, got still kooky but tolerable Minnick, and now we're back to Sali if not further away.
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Old 11-03-2010, 11:46 PM
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We still don't have a clear-cut winner in the Connecticut gubernatorial race. Malloy was declared the winner, but News12's counts put Foley in the lead, and Foley is going to challenge. Nor does my congressional district have a clear-cut winner. Again, Jim Himes has been declared the winner, but News12's counts put Debicella ahead. (The New York Times doesn't appear to have updated since last night.)

The votes are so close that I really do believe my one vote made a difference. It wouldn't have mattered for which ticket I voted in 2008 for President/VP - Connecticut was going to Obama. (I voted nonetheless.) But I'd be surprised if there isn't a recount in at least one of the races I mentioned. And they ran out of ballots in Bridgeport, which is heavily Democratic and in my CD. And here I thought Florida had locked down the Election Mishap Award back in 2000...
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