Registered Democrat, always have been, currently pretty involved in trying to improve —ie push to the Bernie end— the party. Its dispiriting work, not helped by its failings, in my view, on immigration, foreign policy, unconditional support for israel, etc. locally the initiatives have always been more interesting to me than the candidat…
Registered Democrat, always have been, currently pretty involved in trying to improve —ie push to the Bernie end— the party. Its dispiriting work, not helped by its failings, in my view, on immigration, foreign policy, unconditional support for israel, etc. locally the initiatives have always been more interesting to me than the candidates. I am too cynical to be able to “ sell” the politicians to convince someone to vote but propositions like justice for all and fight for 15 are where people really live, and affect their lives. I despise Sinema for making all my suspicions about politicians come true—a blue wave gets behind her and she immediately coxies up to Manchin to make sure she puts the brakes on some really important changes that the country needs to make. While i am loathe to blame all of our issues on Republicans, this current crop, the MAGA obstructionists, are incrediblt dangerous— as a politics based on theatre instead of policy propositions is apt to be. I have been known to jump the aisle on individual issues, like education or accountability, in the pre MAGA past but cannot imagine doing so now— the loonies are in the wheelhouse and things like culture wars and conspiracies turn me off and i see no policy proposals of interest.
Yeah, it's really hard to throw any support to a party packed with Justine Wadsacks. What initiative(s) are you excited about this year? You have any faith in Ranked choice voting (or whatever they're doing now) to change the dynamics of who makes it on the november ballot?
Obvio i will be excited about the abortion one if it ever comes out, altho i have heard so often that opening a constitutional convention can lead to alot of unrelated stuff but i think its worth it. Justice for All has always been an excellent one. I dont know of others yet. Raiding wages got mayor and council has a logic to it but “ excited” i am not on that one. My gut feeling is thst ranked choice would probably be an improvement but i dont know enough about it. Perhaps a primer on it would be good?
Embarrassed to say i am still a free subscription to tucson agenda so i assume i dont get to comment. Depends on the councilperson, hank, as to their value. Kozachik? A raise and more! Lane? A vote for Ortega….( im actually not in her district so i couldnt do that even if i wanted to…)
I fully support ranked choice voting as a way to elect candidates who represent a larger portion of citizens. And hopefully the system would attract candidates who wish to appeal to our better nature and not our extremes. I don’t know when it could be fully implemented. It will be a big job in this entrenched two party system.
Registered Democrat, always have been, currently pretty involved in trying to improve —ie push to the Bernie end— the party. Its dispiriting work, not helped by its failings, in my view, on immigration, foreign policy, unconditional support for israel, etc. locally the initiatives have always been more interesting to me than the candidates. I am too cynical to be able to “ sell” the politicians to convince someone to vote but propositions like justice for all and fight for 15 are where people really live, and affect their lives. I despise Sinema for making all my suspicions about politicians come true—a blue wave gets behind her and she immediately coxies up to Manchin to make sure she puts the brakes on some really important changes that the country needs to make. While i am loathe to blame all of our issues on Republicans, this current crop, the MAGA obstructionists, are incrediblt dangerous— as a politics based on theatre instead of policy propositions is apt to be. I have been known to jump the aisle on individual issues, like education or accountability, in the pre MAGA past but cannot imagine doing so now— the loonies are in the wheelhouse and things like culture wars and conspiracies turn me off and i see no policy proposals of interest.
Yeah, it's really hard to throw any support to a party packed with Justine Wadsacks. What initiative(s) are you excited about this year? You have any faith in Ranked choice voting (or whatever they're doing now) to change the dynamics of who makes it on the november ballot?
Obvio i will be excited about the abortion one if it ever comes out, altho i have heard so often that opening a constitutional convention can lead to alot of unrelated stuff but i think its worth it. Justice for All has always been an excellent one. I dont know of others yet. Raiding wages got mayor and council has a logic to it but “ excited” i am not on that one. My gut feeling is thst ranked choice would probably be an improvement but i dont know enough about it. Perhaps a primer on it would be good?
Yeah, we did something a long time ago when they were just getting started but probably worth revisiting.
https://arizonaagenda.substack.com/p/the-daily-agenda-democracy-isnt-sending
And did you comment on the Tucson Agenda today? They're talking about city council raises. How much is a city councilman worth to you, Betts?
Embarrassed to say i am still a free subscription to tucson agenda so i assume i dont get to comment. Depends on the councilperson, hank, as to their value. Kozachik? A raise and more! Lane? A vote for Ortega….( im actually not in her district so i couldnt do that even if i wanted to…)
I fully support ranked choice voting as a way to elect candidates who represent a larger portion of citizens. And hopefully the system would attract candidates who wish to appeal to our better nature and not our extremes. I don’t know when it could be fully implemented. It will be a big job in this entrenched two party system.