Comments on: My Ballot for Next Tuesday: Page Two https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525617 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:31:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525617 Gips, glad I could do your thinking for you … as otherwise, you may not be able to handle that on your own.

]]> By: gips https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525616 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:31:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525616 thanks for the input…i’m voting for everyone you are not. 🙂

]]> By: Teresa https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525615 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:13:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525615 Thank you so much for this article. This was an easy way for me to figure out who NOT to vote for!

]]> By: Zera Lee https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525614 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:05:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525614 HI, Greg. I reached the same conclusions you did, but I thought I would share a few more resources with you:

This is a discussion of some of these judicial candidates.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/71656/dan-griffith-greg-wersal-tim-tingelstad-conservative-judicial-candidate

The League of Women Voters has a fairly complete online ballot with information on some of the candidates. I picked up a printed version at the city offices.
http://www.lwvmn.org/

And last but not least, I discovered the Judgepedia search engine.
http://judgepedia.org/

It’s the city-level candidates I have had trouble finding anything about. Too small a constituency, I guess.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525613 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:42:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525613 Annie, where up north are you? This ballot may not help much if you are in a different county. From your IP address I’m thinking you’re in the lakes region.

]]> By: Keith Hammerbeck https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525612 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:07:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525612 Thank you, Greg, for adding information critical to my decision tomorrow. I must return for more of your blog.

]]> By: Annie Up North https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525611 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:20:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525611 Read who you were voting for and why. Thanks for all that info on the liberal freaks, now I know who NOT to vote for.

]]> By: Clam https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525610 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:02:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525610 Most courteous of you to explain. Thank you and keep up the good work. Even on this side of the pond, I shudder at the prospect of a Tea Pot victory.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525609 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:39:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525609 In America we have thing thing were we need each of the three branches of government to have a way to fuck up the other branches of government.

Executive overseas all elections, can appoint representatives if one dies or something, and can even vote in the chambers under certain circumstances (the Vice President is a tiebreaker vote in the Senate, for example). The representatives can affect who is in the executive (non elected) such as the Senate confirming all important and non-political executive appointments, including judges (thus getting a two-fer). The executive appointing supreme court judges. The judges over-ruling laws passed by the legislature or regulations crafted by the executive, and so on.

Something simple and sensible like the judiciary appointing its own would be communistico-socialism and possibly gay or at least bicoastal. Can’t happen here.

]]> By: Clam https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525608 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:31:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/30/my-ballot-for-next-tuesday-pag-1/#comment-525608 A good point, but in the U.K. I think I’m right in saying that they are appointed by the judiciary itself – and can’t be dismissed except for gross malfeasance. They also get paid enough to make bribes unattractive. This gives them a degree of independence which can, sometimes, be a problem but which, on the whole, seems to work.

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