Voting today

[bill_schubert]

Today is a cold day.  The temp right now is freezing (freezing in either method of measurement) and is staying that way, not really warming up.  I'm not too unhappy about it.  We're out of the path of the huge system sweeping across the country to our north so no complaints here.  But I think our big outing will be to vote in the primary.  I'll be voting Republican  since we will be electing all Republicans so I may as well vote in their primary.  I went out on the League of Women Voters (thanks, btw, women for providing some intelligence to the system) and ran comparisons on all the candidates and selected the least egregious ones.  Least onerous?  Not sure which is a better word in this context.  Selected the ones that turn my stomach the least anyway.  

I disagree with my Congressman, John Carter, and frequently tell him so.  I'm on his mailing list and provide feedback whenever he asks.  He's actually an old school conservative who, when he was allowed to and still retain his office, at least respectfully referred to the opposition.  I always thought I'd like to sit on the porch and have a beer with him.  Probably still would.  But I disagree with nearly every thing he says.  But he is so much better than his competition.  

All the rest are about the same.  There is a woman running for state Attorney General that I really like so I'm assuming she won't have a chance.  But I'm there for her.

Best of all is the platform statements at the end.  Voters can vote yes or no on each.  The Dems have the same thing and theirs are stupid too.  But here is one of my best from the Republican side:

Texas schools should teach students basic knowledge and American exceptionalism and reject Critical Race Theory and other curricula that promote Marxist doctrine and encourage division based on creed, race, or economic status.

Vote yes or no.  

It is like a political comic book.  'Hey, check this out, what if we said this....wouldn't that be funny?'.

Way too many things in that statement to unpack.  I'm thinking I'll vote 'No' though.  Good thing Americans are better than everyone else.  Otherwise they might think we're idiots.

Comments

[rustymarble.livejournal.com]

Wow! That last part really make me glad I escaped Texas. Living in Delaware, you have to put up with traffic jams when the President comes home, but we don't have really strange platform statements like that!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's more. Doesn't get any better.

I just looked at the Dems ballot. For some reason they don't have any planks this year. It is fine with me. Theirs are typically pretty dumb too. But the Republican ones could have been written by Q

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Star Trek's Q?

I can't think of any elected official of whom I'm aware with whom I haven't disagreed on at least one point, whatever that is or was at that time.

[mollywheezy.livejournal.com]

I used to live in TX, so I feel your pain. However, since I now live in AL, the situation has not improved.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

A lateral move politically, I'd say.

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

I've never left my blue state but I did live for 20+ years in a really red part of it. I'm so glad I've left and moved to a community where the folks I vote for actually win!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

It has been so long since I've lived even in a vaguely progressive community that I can't remember what it is like.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

That seems like such a crazy system, though I have friends who are planning to buy Conservative party memberships so they can vote in the upcoming leadership convention. I may do the same, but not until I decide on the best strategy: try to elect someone who is relatively moderate but who won’t likely win because the party is catering to the crazies, or support the most loathsome one to help make them unelectable.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I'd never looked but this is the case in 17 of the 50 states according to The Texas Tribune. While it is not common in most places that people cross lines to vote in the other party's primary it does happen and I think is a lot more common in our county for the reasons I'm doing it, to have a say.