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kidal25

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Hi guys. Sorry for just posting randomly for the first time in a long time, but I have a question for Florida voting.

What and who the heck should I vote for tomorrow in the Nov 2nd elections in Florida? I wish I was in Kentucky to vote for Rand but obviously I can't. I just want to do my part for liberty so if someone can please give me a cheat sheet on what amendments to vote for and who to vote for it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
I noticed we have one of these threads (or two) for CA, other states should be stepping it up.
 
kidal25 said:
Hi guys. Sorry for just posting randomly for the first time in a long time, but I have a question for Florida voting.

What and who the heck should I vote for tomorrow in the Nov 2nd elections in Florida? I wish I was in Kentucky to vote for Rand but obviously I can't. I just want to do my part for liberty so if someone can please give me a cheat sheet on what amendments to vote for and who to vote for it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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One nice thing about Florida is absentee balloting is quite easy. Next year just tell them to send your ballot and vote via mail. That's what I did. As far as voting, for Governor you should probably vote Scott. No viable Liberty alternative and Sink wants to raise taxes and supports Obamacare. For Senate vote Snitcker or whatever the Libertarian's name is. Rubio will win but when he turns in to a raving neocon once he gets to Washington you will have a clean conscience. Your individual house district varies, but the choices here are likely both horrible so who cares? In terms of Amendments, vote

Yes on 1 (ends public financing)
No on 2 (would give special tax break to soldiers)
No on 4 (makes development more difficult and expensive)
No on 5 (tries to end gerrymandering- bad for our movement since safe R districts are where our candidates have the best hope)
No on 6 (tries to end gerrymandering)
Yes on 8 (will loosen class to student ratio law)
 
teamrican1 said:
Yes on 1 (ends public financing)
No on 2 (would give special tax break to soldiers)
No on 4 (makes development more difficult and expensive)
No on 5 (tries to end gerrymandering- bad for our movement since safe R districts are where our candidates have the best hope)
No on 6 (tries to end gerrymandering)
Yes on 8 (will loosen class to student ratio law)
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I was considering voting yes on 5 and 6. Sure, it takes away the Republican edge that we have right now. But the districts are so skewed as far as gerrymandering that principle would dictate that fairness of district lines would be good to jump on now so it wouldn't come back to haunt us in the future if Dems got into power. Sure, the Dems are pushing for it, but I'm thinking that districts that aren't as skewed to Dems or Reps could be taken by a candidate that is in the middle or libertarian.

Not sure, I'm still on the edge. Leaning toward voting no for most of them.
 
Elwar said:
I was considering voting yes on 5 and 6. Sure, it takes away the Republican edge that we have right now. But the districts are so skewed as far as gerrymandering that principle would dictate that fairness of district lines would be good to jump on now so it wouldn't come back to haunt us in the future if Dems got into power. Sure, the Dems are pushing for it, but I'm thinking that districts that aren't as skewed to Dems or Reps could be taken by a candidate that is in the middle or libertarian.

Not sure, I'm still on the edge. Leaning toward voting no for most of them.
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The NAACP and Acorn support Amendments 5 & 6.
 
bobbyw24 said:
The NAACP and Acorn support Amendments 5 & 6.
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I know this.

But if Acorn and NAACP were trying to end the income tax because they didn't like Republicans getting all of that money I would still support it.
 
Nevermind, just read the actual text of the amendment that's going into the Constitution and it hardly even adresses gerrymandering and geography. And it adds equality for races and language areas.

Gotta read the text of those things...quite deceiving.
 
I wonder how Constitution Party candidate DeCastro will do in the senate race.
 
I admit that I didn't do enough research on our Mosquito control. I chose Michael Moore...because his name was far enough down the list and I hadn't heard much about him. So I figured he'd be losing anyway, and my vote for the winner wouldn't be seen as a "referendum" on mosquito control.
 
I'm not a Rubio fan, and I'm not 100% sure I'd vote for him if I lived there. But I think I would.

I was dead set against him for awhile, and am still skeptical. But the thing that got me to think I'd like to see what he actually does in the Senate was this blog post:
http://www.independent.org/blog/index.php?p=5103
Holcombe says in one of the comments that he was an economic adviser to Rubio, which tells me he has more of an inside scoop on his philosophy than I can get just by observing how he plays the political game.

I'm a big fan of the Independent Institute, so I admit I'm kind of biased in favor giving the benefit of the doubt to what I read from their fellows. Here's Holcombe's bio there:
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=528
 
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teamrican1 said:
One nice thing about Florida is absentee balloting is quite easy. Next year just tell them to send your ballot and vote via mail. That's what I did. As far as voting, for Governor you should probably vote Scott. No viable Liberty alternative and Sink wants to raise taxes and supports Obamacare. For Senate vote Snitcker or whatever the Libertarian's name is. Rubio will win but when he turns in to a raving neocon once he gets to Washington you will have a clean conscience. Your individual house district varies, but the choices here are likely both horrible so who cares? In terms of Amendments, vote

Yes on 1 (ends public financing)
No on 2 (would give special tax break to soldiers)
No on 4 (makes development more difficult and expensive)
No on 5 (tries to end gerrymandering- bad for our movement since safe R districts are where our candidates have the best hope)
No on 6 (tries to end gerrymandering)
Yes on 8 (will loosen class to student ratio law)
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I voted yes to all except 2.
 
Rubio did sign the Tea Party contract to limit government etc. Vote for Rick Scott or Alex Sink will NOT allow us to nullify obamacare and cap and tax. Rubio is a win. If you are in the panhandle please vote for Steve Southerland..he is a constitutionalist and I know him .
 
Snitker is not going to win. The libertarians should focus on trying to win local and state elections...then move to national elections.
 
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