A multiple choice quiz about Kathleen Conway
Why am I posting this photo from Democratic Arapahoe County Clerk nominee Kathleen Conway's event last night? You be the judge. Am I...A. ...seizing the opportunity to talk about Democratic unity? More than 80 people turned up at the event, including CD6 nominee Bill Winter and HD38 nominee Joe Rice. Keep in mind that Conway is running for county clerk, here. Not president.
B. ...seizing the opportunity to point out that even at the local level, Republicans seem incapable of running clean campaigns? There are no legal guidelines for county clerk newsletters. But to many observers, Republican incumbent Nancy Doty's most recent one looks a lot like campaign literature. The Rocky Mountain News reports:
The two-sided flyer includes [Doty's] picture and (four times) her name. There is a personal greeting from her as well as information about registration deadlines, election dates, early-voting locations, the new county voting machines, and the four locations where Arapahoe residents can register to vote...
Keep in mind that the newsletter was funded by your tax dollars. Now, what was the URL for Conway's campaign again? Oh yeah, I remember.
Photo courtesy of the Coloradolib satellite, which is constantly circling the skies. Left to right, Rice, Conway, HD41 Rep. Nancy Todd and HD42 Rep. Michael Garcia.
2 Comments:
In addition to using county tax payer funds as a backdoor way to campaign there are also questions being raised about huge prices being paid for basic county equipment [copy machines etc.] being authorized out of this office for favored vendors. We need an investigation of the Clerks office to see how our money is being spent.
Ah, a wonderful event it was and so was the primary. At the latter event an election judge was asked what that funny thing on the side of the machine was and he told the voter that it was a paper trail.
Now, I have a reallllyyyy BIGGGGGG Question!!!
What, exactly IS a paper trail?
Is it like those candid camera moments when you come out of a public restroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe and the roll following along behind you?
Is it like a cash register receipt that you can see but can't touch and they won't give you one to take home?
Maybe one of the problems with a secret ballot is that who the machine recorded your vote for is kept a secret from you...
Hmmmm....
Frankly, I believe a paper trail is a hard copy of how you and the world voted that can be recounted by a machine that reads the marks you made...in fact, it can be read over and over by various machines, so you know if the machines are reading correctly.....
Hmm...maybe the only way to get a paper trail is to vote absentee. At least it would save you time and gas money. And you could sit at the kitchen table and try to figure out the 16 or so initiatives on the ballot...to see which ones help humans and which ones don't.
Ohhhh.. that would be such a LIBERAL thing to do....
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