Hey! What gives? I managed to get in to register to vote in Oklahoma the last possible day and they gave me a sample ballot. Only Bush and Kerry are represented on their ballot.

By the way, this is really Bush country. Only seen 2 signs for Kerry here and dozen's for Bush in town and on the businesses.

Anyway, I'm glad that you got your ballot love.
hb

On the ammendments,

I'm voting against collecting taxes from the casin*s. (apparently, your word filter deams casin* as a bad word ... boy, that's strict!) Basically, it's the Indian casin*s and cruises that do their gambling in international waters. Especially the Indian casin*s, the state has no right to collect on their money. They're using the "think of the children" (money is supposed to go to education -- and they contend unilke the lottery, it will actually go to the schools .. yeah right) as a smokescrene.

I'm torn on the repealing the high-speed rail one. Tom Gallagher is right on one account. The first leg of the rail will go between OIA and Tampa. There will be no other stops. Once you pick up a ride in Orlando and zoom over to Tampa (120-150 mph .. wow), how are you going to get around? It doesn't link up to other public transportation, ie, a city rail system. I really think the state needs a rail system, but if I vote to repeal the forced-train system, it will be because I'm tired of items like this being put into the state constitution. It's too damn easy for any person or group to get something put in the constitution. We have a freakin' ammendment in the state constitution dealing with farmers not being able to tie sows down on farms (so the large ones don't roll over and smother their babies, thank you PETA freaks!). THAT DOESN'T NEED TO BE IN THE CONSTITUTION!!! THAT'S A LAW OR A STATUTE!

/rant off

Amanda your rants funny! I'm with you on the casin*s issue. Agreed. I see on the Oklahoma ballot here that they are voting on "issues of concern" with Indian's Nations gaming. They keep a states influence in what types of games are allowed and how their conducted i.e. via machine or cards. From what I've read, it's just to insure that things don't get out of hand on reservations to include things like cock and dog fighting. I don't think they want tax the tribes here, but they are attempting to make them set aside (by state referendum) some percentage of profits for anti-gambling addiction problems so the state doesn't have to foot the entire bill for programs like that. Kind of fuzzy by definition of a tax, huh? Just food for thought. Bill

Well, I'll bite. I'm guessing two of the remaining are David Cobb for the Green Party and Michael Badnarik for the Libertarian Party. Who are the rest?

Hi Mal Snay,

the other three are the following: Michael Peroutka (CPF), James Harris (SWP), and Walter F. Brown (SPF).

Hey Amanda - Thanks for the input on the Amendment's! As for casin*s, I get all manner of sp*m from some person who wants me, or my readers to go play various p*ker games (some times up to a 100 a day) or buy various "enhancement" pills. Gah. Fortunately my Blacklist filters 98% of them out. And really, I don't think casin* will come up that much in everyday blog conversations. So it's worth the little inconvience of typing casin*.

Casin* ;p