Some Other Comments About Tuesday the 6th of 2007
Posted By JM Bell on November 7, 2007
So, yeah, I’m taking a break today from the blog, for the most part. There were a lot of great races yesterday and some really, really high points.
Ralph Becker won.
Luke Garrott won.
Beth Holbrook won.
JT Martin won.
Vouchers were waffle-stomped in all 29 counties in Utah. ALL OF THEM!
But, some low points were experienced yesterday as well.
Like this:
“I’m ashamed of Utah that this could even be a close vote,” said Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, who has donated millions of dollars to support vouchers. “This is parents looking at their kids getting a third-rate education and other kids getting basically a death sentence and saying, ‘That’s OK by me.”‘
Byrne just guaranteed that I’ll never spend another penny at his website (and that means something, because I’ve spent thousands there over the years). I wonder how many Overstock Private Academies he’d planned on building?
Sometimes there are whiners, and that’s unavoidable.
Jordan School District will spilt.
Salt Lake City Police Department will continue in a crumbling building.
Godfrey won.
Gary Hart tells the painful truth about Democrats.
Overall a pretty good day, yesterday, but not without it’s low points.
It wasn’t a close vote, and I’ve never been more proud to be a Utahn. We beat our one-party, unrepresentative legislature. Well, maybe they represent Patrick Byrne but not us.
Wow, Warnick, that was fast. I had that up for like 30 seconds. What’s your WPM anyway?
I’m proud, too. Utahns can be, and most always are, Sheeple, but yesterday, they proved that they hate being lied to.
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JM, Godfrey hasn’t won yet. The margin was only 181 votes and they challenged about 140 Van Hooser supporters at the polls.
Provisional ballots are being counted (about 500) and the election isn’t being called until Tuesday.
So what was up with the long long long lines at the polls here in Salt Lake County? Why did our normally intelligent County Clerk, Sherrie Swenson, decide to combine the majority of the districts this election with no back-up plan in case they got swamped?
I went mid-afternoon and waited in line for a half hour. My best friend, who lives in my district, tried to go after work and found out that the line was 3 hours long, and therefore chose not to vote.
I’m planning on remembering those lines come her re-election bid…
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