{"id":3147,"date":"2010-10-19T01:25:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2010-10-19T01:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:25:51","slug":"why-i-will-vote-for-no-democrats-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/why-i-will-vote-for-no-democrats-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I will Vote for No Democrats This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom122007\" Many of you may find this announcement quite a surprise.  Have I been guzzling Republican Kool-Aid?  Certainly not!  Am I on the verge of commitment to an institution to be treated for insaniTEA?  God forbid! Am I angry at Democrats?  I am at some of them, but that has nothing to do with it.  Have I decided to vote for a third party?  No.  While I prefer a more social democratic platform than what the Democrats offer, I would not want to waste my vote on a candidate with no chance of election, especially when the Republicans present such a threat to our livelihood, our human rights, our Constitution, our standing in the world, and what\u2019s left about our society, that I hold dear, that Republicans have not already destroyed.  I have not changed my position that Democrats, flawed though they may be, are a far better option than Republicans, who govern exclusively for the benefit of criminal corporations and the richest 1%.  So why am a refusing to vote for Democrats this year?  The answer may surprise you.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here in Oregon, we have vote by mail.  It\u2019s an excellent system.  The only way I have seen Republicans able to cheat the system is to get alcoholic transients to register and trade their signature on pre-filled ballots for beer or wine.  I broke up such an exchange in 2004, but the effects of that are far less that Republican election day scams in other parts of the country.  I mailed my ballot today, and voted for Ron Wyden (D) for Senator, David Wu (D) for Representative, John Kitzhaber (D) for Governor. Ted Wheeler (D) for Treasurer, and Mary Nolan (D) for state Representative.  These are the only partisan races in my district this year.<\/font><\/p>\n

So the reason I will vote for no Democrats this year is simple.  It\u2019s illegal for me to vote twice.  The Republicans claim that we fraudulently vote over and over again is a lie.  A much as I would like more, I only get one vote per race.  I\u2019ve done my part.  It\u2019s your turn.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you may find this announcement quite a surprise.  Have I been guzzling Republican Kool-Aid?  Certainly not!  Am I on the verge of commitment to an institution to be treated for insaniTEA?  God forbid! Am I angry at Democrats?  I am at some of them, but that has nothing to do with it.  Have […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}