My CA GOP Primary Ballot Casted - How I voted.

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Thirty minutes ago I cast my ballot, and turnout was extremely light. In the 20 minutes I took, only 3 other people came in.

Here were my choices.

STATE
Governor (The choices sucked!) - Ken Miller (For supporting nullification)
Lieutenant Governor - Scott L. Levitt (Lesser of evils)
Secretary of State - Orly Taitz (Chance to bring Obama issue forth, require citizenship documents to run for office...)
Controller - Tony Strickland
Treasurer - Mimi Walters (Unopposed)
Attorney General - John Eastman
Insurance Commissioner - Mike Villines
State Board of Equalization 3rd District - Michelle Steel (Incumbent with good record)
State Assembly - Emma Turner (Lesser of evils)
Superintendent of Public Instruction - Karen Blake (Supports Homeschooling)


FEDERAL
US Senator - Tom Campbell
US Representative 51st District - Nick Popaditch (Unopposed)

County
County Clerk - Ernest Dronenburg (Taxpayer's Advocate)
District Attorney - Bonnie Dumanis (Unopposed)
Sheriff - Jim Duffy (Strong supporter of 2nd amendment, would issue concealed licenses to anybody without criminal record!)
Tax Collector - William F. Betts (Promises Leniency)

Propositions
13 - NO (Corporate welfare)
14 - NO (Yes would eliminate third party participation in general elections through "top two primary")
15 - NO (Yes would create public campaign financing infrastructure.)
16 - NO (Yes would virtually give Sacramento full say on power grid. Local option could give consumers option to switch to cheaper provider.)
17 - NO (If you decide not to have a car registered for a year or two due to personal reasons, your insurance rates would go up when you started driving again. Imagine moving out of country for a couple of years and having a rate hike because you weren't paying insurance in US, despite a perfect driving record.)


Superior Court Judges

Most offices were a sick choice between two evils, but I will list the one that inspired me.

Judge of the Superior court Office no. 21 - Bill Trask (History of defending people in 1st amendment cases!)




There you have it. Not many Tea Party or Libertarian-friendly candidates, but I tried my best.
 
Of course the vote is already cast, but apart from Orly, are there any critiques? In the state and federal races I often felt like between a rock and a hard place. However, there were some choices on the county level that made me feel good about a chance of changing things. e.g. sheriff and the 2nd amendment

I was up last night for hours diligently researching literally every single candidate, including those who didn't submit a statement in the voter guides.
 
libertythor said:
Of course the vote is already cast, but apart from Orly, are there any critiques? In the state and federal races I often felt like between a rock and a hard place. However, there were some choices on the county level that made me feel good about a chance of changing things. e.g. sheriff and the 2nd amendment

I was up last night for hours diligently researching literally every single candidate, including those who didn't submit a statement in the voter guides.
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Tom Campbell was a hard choice for me to swallow in following this race. He is good sometimes, but in others Devore really shines over him. As long as Fiorina doesn't win though, I would be happy.
 
Wow, did I get tricked on any of the propositions?

You voted "No" on all of them...


#13 Yes (Reduces property taxes, gives more incentive for businesses to retrofit building for earthquakes without being penalized by a higher property tax)

#14 No (Open Primary Trick Question)

#15 No (Lifts the ban on public funding of political campaigns.. the last thing we need is the government to choose who is going to be elected..)

#16 BIG YES!! (REQUIRES a public referendum for local governments to take over electricity infrastructure, whereas currently a public referendum is NOT required, so city councils can take over private electricity infrastructure WITHOUT voter consent.. this is a road block to help prevent the government take-over of utilities, which is a good thing.)

#17 Yes (If it passes, it will allow insurance companies in the state to give what are known as "persistency discounts" to new customers. "Persistency discounts" are discounts for those who have had continuous or nearly continuous auto insurance coverage. Free market based decision.)
 
I only voted for DeVore, Orly and Lynn.. and Naritelli, he's supposedly a "Tea Party favorite" so I'd like to see him win over Whitman.. The candidates really sucked.

oh, and I wrote in Tommy Chong for Attorney General...
 
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STATE
Governor - Steve Poizner
Lieutenant Governor - Sam Aanestad,
Secretary of State - Damon Dunn
Controller - David Evans
Treasurer - Mimi Walters (Unopposed)
Attorney General - John Eastman
Insurance Commissioner - Mike Villines
State Board of Equalization 2nd District - George Runner
State Assembly - Matt Kokkonen (made a video about Ron Paul)
Superintendent of Public Instruction - Larry Aceves


FEDERAL
US Senator - Chuck Devore
US Representative 24th District - Elton Gallegly

County
District Attorney - Josh Lynn
Tax Collector - Harry E. Hagen

Propositions
13 - Yes
14 - No
15 - No
16 - No
17 - Yes


+all incumbents unopposed
 
Here's how I voted (everything else I left blank):
Governor: Naritelli
Lt. Governor: Levitt
Attorney General: Eastman
Senator: DeVore
Sheriff: Hunt
13: Yes, 14: No, 15: No, 16: Yes, 17: Yes
 
dannno said:
Wow, did I get tricked on any of the propositions?

#16 BIG YES!! (REQUIRES a public referendum for local governments to take over electricity infrastructure, whereas currently a public referendum is NOT required, so city councils can take over private electricity infrastructure WITHOUT voter consent.. this is a road block to help prevent the government take-over of utilities, which is a good thing.)
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I voted no on 16. google reasons on campaign for liberty and other such sites.
 
dannno said:
I only voted for DeVore and Orly.. and Naritelli, he's supposedly a "Tea Party favorite" so I'd like to see him win over Whitman.. The candidates really sucked.

oh, and I wrote in Tommy Chong for Attorney General...
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Mickey Mouse for Superintendant of Public Schools. :p
 
dannno said:
#16 BIG YES!! (REQUIRES a public referendum for local governments to take over electricity infrastructure, whereas currently a public referendum is NOT required, so city councils can take over private electricity infrastructure WITHOUT voter consent.. this is a road block to help prevent the government take-over of utilities, which is a good thing.)

#17 Yes (If it passes, it will allow insurance companies in the state to give what are known as "persistency discounts" to new customers. "Persistency discounts" are discounts for those who have had continuous or nearly continuous auto insurance coverage. Free market based decision.)
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Ok. It looks like I really screwed the pooch on #16. I am going to call a friend of mine who is going to vote around 7 PM and pass the word, but from the way I read it, it doesn't refer to takeovers, rather the entrance into the market with new infrastructure.
 
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libertythor said:
Ok. It looks like I really screwed the pooch on #16. I am going to call a friend of mine who is going to vote around 7 PM and pass the word, but from the way I read it, it doesn't refer to takeovers, rather the entrance into the market with new infrastructure.
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See the above post from 0zzy, need to see what CFL has to say..It's so easy to get fooled by propositions with their damn summaries..
 
0zzy said:
I voted no on 16. google reasons on campaign for liberty and other such sites.
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Contradictory....


This guy says "Yes"

Edit: So does this guy: http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=35457

Many say that Proposition 16 is about choice. Once passed, if a local government decides that it wants to enter the electricity business, it will be required to get approval from the citizens via a 2/3 supermajority vote (just as it is already required to do prior to raising many forms of taxes). The choice for citizens will be:

1) Buy power from a government-controlled private company (e.g., PG&E).

2) Buy power from a government-owned company

That is a choice between Fascism and Socialism, and is really no choice at all.

The real choice I see is the following: we can choose to add an additional constraint on government power by passing Proposition 16, or we can choose to leave that aspect of government power unconstrained. As a libertarian, I choose to constrain the power of the insatiable leviathan known as government at every opportunity. I'll be voting YES on Proposition 16.
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http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=35611



This guy says "No"

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=35382
 
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0zzy said:
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee son.
I knew I read that No article somewhere :).

Oh well, I had a provisional ballet, cause they didn't have my name, so my vote hardly even counts.
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If you come up in their database at a neighboring precinct or something your statewide votes will count, but like two weeks later. Keep your stub, and check the control number at your county registrar of voters website.

I had a friend who had this happen, and his entire vote was counted for the November 2008 election. It turns out that he was registered at the last possible date, but they didn't update the list. His control number showed up as counted.
 
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Governor - Steve Poizner
Lieutenant Governor - Sam Aanestad
Attorney General - Steve Cooley
Insurance Commissioner - Brian Fitzgerald
Senator - Chuck DeVore
Propositions
13 - Yes
14 - No
15 - No
16 - Yes
17 - Yes
 
I was so disgusted with the choice of candidates, I just voted on the props as follows...

13 - YES
14 thru 17 - NO
 
STATE
Governor - Poizner (turned off by Meg Whitman's flyers and commercials)
Lieutenant Governor - Sam Aanestad (sounds okay)
Secretary of State - Orly Taitz (lady is kind of nuts, but I like her)
Controller - Tony Strickland
Treasurer - Mimi Walters
Attorney General - Steve Cooley (John and Ken and Republican pamphlet endorsement)
Insurance Commissioner - Brian Fitzgerald (Mike Villines is evil according to John and Ken)
Voted along party lines for the rest.


FEDERAL
US Senator - Tom Campbell (I trust him and I think he's the only one who can beat Boxer in the general. He might be behind raising millions of dollars in recent taxes in California, but while Ron Paul wasn't in Congress in the 1990's, I believe Campbell had the best anti-tax record. And despite Devore's rhetoric and eloquence, and me agreeing with him on 85% of issues, it is men like him that can allow senseless warmongering (he's a Zionist), which in my opinion will cost us 1000 times the itsy-weeny taxes Campbell will ever support).
-I don't think I had a Republican congressional candidate.

COUNTY
I don't know anything about my county so I didn't vote for anyone but Sheriff Baca.

Propositions (I voted sort of based on the recommendations of the Libertarian Party of California). http://ca.lp.org/article_399.shtml
13 - Yes
14 - No
15 - No
16 - No
17 - Yes

All other non-partisan candidates like judges, I don't know much about to have voted for them.
 
Governor - Lawrence Naritelli
Lieutenant Governor - Scott Levitt
Attorney General - John Eastman
Sec of State - Damon Dunn
Senator - Chuck DeVore
Propositions
13 - Yes
14 - No
15 - No
16 - Yes
17 - Yes
 
Imperial said:
Tom Campbell was a hard choice for me to swallow in following this race. He is good sometimes, but in others Devore really shines over him. As long as Fiorina doesn't win though, I would be happy.
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Those who voted for Devore seem to be very shortsighted. See, one other main reason why I voted for Campbell was that he has the best chances to defeat Boxer. (I recall a USC/LA Times poll where he comes out ahead of Boxer by 7 points, while Fiorina is behind about 6-7 points to Boxer). Campbell supports gay marriage and abortion, issues that really resonate with the majority of Californians (except minorities, Christian fundamentalists and old people). During the primary, Fiorina marketed herself as a social conservative and even a Tea Partier, which will alienate Democrats and Independents in the general election. Campbell is essentially in the same mold of Richard Riordan (a pro-business moderate), and if you like Riordan, you have to like Campbell as well. Devore or Fiorina (unless Fiorina does an about face in her image) will have absolutely no appeal with well to do liberal Bay Area and Los Angeles whites, which we have to depend on to defeat Boxer.

So Campbell is the best bet, and I really hope he wins today.
 
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