ELECTIONS IN MICHIGAN - MY VOTES!

Just mailed my absentee ballot for mid term elections in Michigan.

On a national level our incumbent senator is Debbie Stabenow (Democrat) challenged by Mike Bouchard (Republican). I do not like Ms. Stabenow because she is a confirmed socialist and union sympathizer with no independent thought processing capabilities. Mike had Bush stump for him which indicated to me at least, that he is a dye in the wool Republican with no independent thought processes either. Most other Republicans are at least distancing themselves from Bush to stand a chance at the elections but not ole’ Mike, which to me is a sign he is not in touch with the current political reality out there.

Both do not thrill me but as I have stated before, the Republicans need to be taught a lesson and to do that, we cannot replace a Democrat with a Republican so Debbie gets my reluctant vote.

As far as the Michigan governor position, I went with Granholm (Democrat) because DeVos is a religious kook. He probably knows more about business than Granholm does but I do not want him positioned for a run at the presidency; we already have a religious kook as president and that must never happen again.

Locally, I don’t really care about party affiliation. I voted for mainly incumbents that were doing a good job already.

We had quite a few proposals.

Could not vote to allow hunting of Morning Doves; go hunt deer, the herd is already too big.

Yes on banning discrimination in school admissions, government jobs and government contracting. Many said the proposal really went after affirmative action and you can read it that way but in these specific areas, we need to admit and hire based on ability, not skin color. I have written about this previously at some length.

Proposals asking for money to be constitutionally mandated for specific areas (education and conservation), sorry, I don’t like mandating fiscal policy through constitutional means; it ties the hands of the legislators who need room to maneuver when it comes to money matters.

We also had a proposal restricting the government from taking private land under eminent domain and giving to another private individual. Usually this government power is reserved for taking private land for the public good like building highways and not for private use even though it might benefit the general public. If you really need the land, let’s make sure the owner is fairly and well compensated.

In the next few weeks, political debate will absolutely accelerate. Hope people are really paying attention and not just voting party, gender or looks; how about the issues this time!

Janusz