Prop 39, the Voter ID initiative: is AG Bonta writing things in a way that that align with his own political interests?

31 Jul

Remember California Prop 6 –  “the Voter Approval for Future Gas and Vehicle Taxes and 2017 Tax Repeal Initiative”? That measure, on the 2018 ballot, would have repealed fuel tax increases and vehicle fees that were enacted in 2017, including the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (RRAA) and required voter approval (via ballot propositions) for the California State Legislature to impose, increase, or extend fuel taxes or vehicle fees in the future. (Ballotpedia).

We know that California has the highest gas prices in the country because California has the highest state taxes on gas. The RRAA was enacted by the legislature, not the voters. Prop 6 was an opportunity to give the taxpayers more say in raising the tax. It failed with 43% of the vote. Was the election fair? Even before the election, critics had already started talking about, in Cal Matters contributor Dan Walters’ words, “a hostile official ballot title from Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office.“

California Assembly member Carl DeMaio cried foul at the time. Many folks I spoke to were also outraged, including the tow truck driver that brought us home when our truck broke down on US 395 one hot July afternoon. People get pissed off when gas gets expensive, it drives up everything in the economy. Our tow driver said he felt the measure had been titled and written in a way that confused people, and they might vote NO when they really wanted to vote yes. He predicted the measure would fail.

Walters confirmed the deception. “Instead of describing it as a repeal of gas taxes, the official title is ‘Eliminates certain road repair and transportation funding. Requires certain fuel taxes and vehicle fees to be approved by the electorate.’”

Walters actually disclosed that he was in favor of the gas tax as it was, but still gave this impartial assessment. “Although Democrats were less likely than Republicans to vote for Proposition 6, the gap wasn’t as wide as one might have expected. The rather slanted title, which didn’t say it was a repeal, probably had something to do with it.”

Now Carl DeMaio has come back with Prop 39, the Voter ID initiative.

According to the Los Angeles Times, “Prop 39 would require voters to present government-issued identification, such as a state driver’s license, every time they vote in person. Voters who use mail-in ballots — by far the most popular method of voting in California — would be required to write a four-digit number, essentially a PIN, on their ballot envelopes. The PIN would come from ID such as a driver’s license or could be generated from the county.”

The measure also requires that the secretary of state and county elections officials to maintain accurate voter registration lists, verify citizenship, and report annually the percentage of each county’s voter roll that have been citizenship-verified.“

I don’t see anything unreasonable here. We have to present a valid ID for so many things we do. My dog has to have a license, and we have to be ready to present it. I think the current voter registration laws in California are way too lax.

Under current law, Californians are required to provide identification when registering to vote and must swear under penalty of perjury, a felony, that they are eligible to vote and are U.S. citizens. The loop hole here is that you don’t have to present proof of citizenship when you get your California driver’s license, and then the county is just taking your word for it on your voter registration? Give me a break.

They are not required to show or provide identification when casting a ballot in person or by mail. So, anybody could be voting in your name, again, give me a break.

You’d expect the Democrats to push back on this measure. Several Democratic legislators have joined together to sue the proponents over “false statements” in their Argument In Favor. But a bigger issue, “A group led by California Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) allege in a 10-page lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court that Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta violated election laws that require the “impartial” labeling of a measure’s purpose.“

DeMaio called it “a false title claiming it prohibits citizens from voting.”

The original language said the measure “establishes additional voters identification and citizenship verification requirements.”

“This measure would amend the California Constitution to further require that voters present government-issued identification at the polls or the last four digits of a government-issued identification number when voting by mail; the State provide voter identification cards on request; and elections officials annually report percentage of each county’s voters whose citizenship they have verified.”

According to the LA Times, “The summary language now states that the measure: ‘Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.‘”

“Invalidates mail ballots that do not have last four digits of designated government-issued identification number written on envelope. Prohibits in-person voting without presenting government-issued identification.”

Read the full article, including details of the suit against the proponents, here

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-28/voter-id-backers-sue-california-attorney-general-over-ballot-description

Like UCLA law professor Rick Hasen says,  “it’s common practice for the AG to write things in ways that that align with the political interests of the Attorney General.”

Frankly, I think the Democrats are afraid if they can’t cheat they can’t win. Silly Rabbits.

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Yes, the city manager form of government is a win-win for everybody but the taxpayers!

14 Jul

Leave it to Scott Rushing to put it in adult language! Thanks Scott!

A City Manager form of administration is popular among Chico City Council members because it provides them with plausible deniability. When things go wrong, they can fire the manager at will. When things go well, the council can take credit for overseeing the City Manager, even though that oversight is illusory.

Yes, the city manager form of administration is just a win-win for everybody but the taxpayers. Council members are indemnified, and so are city employees. Yes, things go wrong, but very seldom does anybody get fired or go to jail. For example, Mark Orme, wow, that guy really screwed our pooch. I’ll say, he lied about population figures and he used COVID as an excuse to cut the public out of many important conversations. I can’t remember exactly what he did to piss off his adoring council, but even Sean Morgan, who used to call Orme “Skipper” so affectionately, turned on him like a viper. Here’s what he said about Orme’s “management style” when he voted to hire Sorensen.

“I think that some of the decision-making methods [in city administration] were handled loosely and people were given reigns that shouldn’t have been given reigns.” That made me laugh – he acted as though he and the rest of council were out to lunch while all this was going on.

So they pressured Orme out, because they knew it would be a lot more expensive to fire the little asshole, and hard to prove anything without turning the monkey gun right into their own faces.

Where’s that little asshole today? He’s in some nasty town, just about 2 hours west of Slab City, making over $250,000/year, base salary.

Yes, their “control” over our town is “illusory”. We’re sitting here like Mulder and Scully, in that episode about the underground fungus. “They treat us like mushrooms, they keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit…” If we allow them to hire this woman from Vallejo, we’re going back into the cavern.

Chico councilmembers want to be popular and pontificate at public meetings; after all, they are politicians.

That reminds me of a remark Bryce Goldstein made on her Facebook, rationalizing her decision to hire the woman. Talk about a pontificator – because the Vallejo woman “worked for The Tribe...” She also thought “settling” a lawsuit is the end of it. I’d have to ask her, what does she know about the lawsuits brought against this woman and the city of Vallejo? Does Ms. Goldstein think that paying somebody to shut up about a crime is “settling”? How much did those lawsuits cost the taxpayers? Including in terms of deferred maintenance? When I looked further into Vallejo’s finances, I see they recently went about cutting 20% of their staff, saying their pension deficit was their chief financial concern.

Thanks for keeping the conversation going Scott, hope to hear from you soon.

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Are the voters intelligent enough to elect anybody?

10 Jul

I won’t lie – I been trying my best to ignore what’s been going on in Chico. I been doing what some people have been suggesting for years – I been minding my own fucking business. And that has been working out for me somewhat – my husband and I have got our rentals buttoned up and easier to manage, we’ve cut utility bills, we’ve even made enough room in our budget for a little tomato patch. No more $8 tomatoes, we can eat BLT’s every night if we want. I got three jars of salsa sitting in the fridge right now, I feel like the queen of England. I blew out my tomato press, and have a new one on the way.

Here’s the thing – you turn your back on a rotten apple and it just gets rottener and rottener. Oh-my-god, they hired the new city manager out of Vallejo! When I heard that news, I thought of my old cousin, bless his soul – he was on the Vallejo City Council in the 1960’s. He told me, that was when Vallejo and cities all over California made a vital mistake – they gave their city managers “executive powers”.

“A city manager serves as the chief administrative and executive officer of a municipality, operating under a council-manager form of government. Their executive powers focus entirely on managing daily operations and implementing policy, explicitly separating administrative duties from the political and legislative role of the mayor and city council.”

Yes, this reduced our city council to the position of fist puppets, essentially cheer leaders. So why bother having a city council? Because that makes “the people” feel like they are still somewhat in charge. Meanwhile, the city manager does essentially what he wants, with a rubber stamp from weak ignorant council members who think they could not possible run a city without the help of this vested, completely indemnified asshole.

What kind of crack was I smoking when I recently said I would support Kasey Reynolds? Just because I don’t like her challenger, who has made it clear she is coming to the chair with an agenda of her own? I’m starting to think we should just eliminate council and go straight to electing our city staffers.

Are the voters intelligent enough to do that? If you have an opinion on that question, chime in. I’m not interested in hearing your opinion of me or posting advertisements for your business.

I’d like to hear Bennett, Winslow, Hawley and Goldstein explain why they just jacked rents all over Chico

21 Jun

Well, the sewer rate discussion took a nasty turn when Bennett, who asked to be allowed to reconsider his ‘yes’ vote from a previous discussion, went with Winslow, Hawley and Goldstein, voting to shove the sewer rate increase right up people’s asses.

Yes, they expect the rest of us to foot the bill for their little pipedreams for Downtown. None of this money will show up in your older neighborhood, take good care of your septic tank. There are square miles of Chico that do not have any sewer to hook up too, having been annexed for the tax money but never hooked up with any city services. When they come after us, they’re going to want a lot of money.

My family tried to sell out of Chico, but the developers who looked at our property told us the Chico market is overbuilt already, and they are waiting for another “correction”. Like 2008?

A local contractor we know told us that the only money in building right now is in low income housing.

Mark Sorensen once reminded me that low income property takes that property out of the tax base. It turns into an expense instead of an asset. Think hard about that, and then take a look at what the city is permitting around Chico.

Nobody wants to explain to me why when we build more housing the price of homes AND rent just keeps going up.

Ann Seymore says in the letters section that compared to the bill for the war and the new ballroom, the sewer charges are just chump change. Does she even know what she’s talking about?

Here’s a good question for Bennett, Winslow, Hawley and Goldstein – what do they expect the sewer increase to do to rents in Chico?

Back to the coffee pot Bat Mom.

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Tomorrow night council to discuss their sewer rate scam. Staff admits – that original sewer rate proposal was their way of getting existing users to pay forward for years and years of development.

15 Jun

Tomorrow night city council will revisit the sewer rate increase. I read the report, available here

https://chico-ca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=1196&meta_id=103624

Here’s the problem – developers don’t want to pay their own way, they want existing neighborhoods to be stuck for their cost of providing whole new parts of town with sewer lines. Read this excerpt.

Sanitary Sewer Master Plan (SSMP) identifies all projects necessary to support buildout of the City per
the General Plan. If new development occurs and a new pipeline is installed to serve only that
development, then that financial responsibility is completely put on the new development. However, when a new development occurs that relies partially on existing sewer mains that do not have sufficient capacity, then that sewer main needs to be upsized. When this occurs, the existing users benefit from a brand-new pipe and are therefore responsible for a portion of the newly installed pipe cost. This is deemed “Sanitary Sewer Master Plan Projects – Existing User Contribution”.

So, when a developer wants to flop a new subdivision in your neighborhood, and the sewer main has to be upsized to provide for that new subdivision, existing users have to pay for it? Even though it would not have been necessary if not for that subdivision? Wow, a brand new pipe! For that they wanted to raise sewer rates by 150%. For developers.

But they hit the beehive with a stick this time – finally. People who threw the mailed ballot assessment that changed us to a “volumetric” rate base came out of the wood work to bitch about this new increase. So staff came up with some new suggestions. They admitted that they based that rate increase on the “assumption… that buildout will occur over the next 20 years.” Assumptions, assumptions – always making asses out of you and me! After the tar and feathers committee came out of nowhere they offer to “extend” their assumption to 40 years or just have it “removed completely”.

My dad would say, they just pulled that rate increase figure out of their ass-umptions.

Our council and staff are afraid of developers. They threaten that if they can’t get us to pay they will have to issue bonds (another way of getting us to pay).

If no fees are collected for this purpose, the risk is that a developer will propose a new development with
their share of sewer costs, and the City will not have funds available to support the existing user
contribution. In this case, the City could reimburse the developer or pursue debt financing to provide the
City’s existing user share of costs.

That original sewer rate proposal was their way of getting existing users to pay forward for years and years of development. We’re not paying the real cost of delivering our own water, or carrying away our sewage – we’re paying for the next wave of overdevelopment.

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Yes California elections are full of fraud. The Feds could help instead of standing by thumbing their noses at us.

8 Jun

It’s funny to hear the conservatives in Washington cluck about campaign improprieties in California – they blame mail-in ballots. I think that’s ignorant on their part. There’s a lot more wrong with California elections that has nothing to do with how the ballots are delivered.

It starts with voter registration. Our registration process here allows not only non-citizens to vote, but allows people to register without a real address. As one legislator pointed out on the morning news, California does not require any proof of citizenship, only a statement from the registrant that they are a legal citizen.

California also allows a person who claims to have no fixed address to register just about anywhere in the jurisdiction in which they want to vote – a street corner, a shelter, city hall. They can have their voting materials mailed to a PO Box. Without very strict oversight, these policies allow non-citizens to vote at addresses all over the state. That is fraud.

I’m sorry Pollyanna, but some people are bad and they lie. And people can also be stupid and not good at their jobs. It’s just too easy for the overseers to be crooked or incompetent, it’s a system that is set up for election fraud.

The conservatives at the federal legislature think mail-in ballots are ripe for fraud. They are accusing liberal California election officials using mail-in ballots as an excuse to hold up the count while they manufacture more ballots in their favor. Is that my fault? I mailed my ballot in and received a receipt via email on May 16. But the election office was not allowed to count it until election day.

I like mail in ballots and I think it would be easy to make sure they don’t hold up the election process. It is a fact that we have a lot of ballots here in California, it takes a long time to count millions of ballots. So we need a law that says the ballot has to be received, not just postmarked, on election day. And county clerks always complain about staff shortages. Maybe the feds could help us out with teams of official, impartial, trained ballot handlers.

The registration process should be the same whether or not a voter requests a mail-in ballot – you should have to present identification with your picture and street address when you register and sign your form with the same signature that’s on your ID. This could be done at the post office, the DMV, and other state and federal offices that serve the public. But it should be done in person, and it should be good as long as you have that valid ID. But then my mail-in ballot should be good with my signature as long as my ID is valid.

I don’t need the results overnight, I want them to be accurate. I think we need more federal oversight to achieve that.

Where did all those people go when they left Grant’s Pass?

25 May

I spent the weekend trying to catch up on agendas for various city meetings and general gossip. By “gossip” I mean, I try to remember to check on Rob Berry every now and then. Mr. Berry is good to go to the meetings, and he rolls out a pretty colorful and, I think, accurate account of these meetings. He also thinks I disagree with him alot but he would be surprised how often we are thinking exactly the same thing.

I read his recent post about attending a city council meeting yesterday, in which he described the scene Downtown as the usual open air insane asylum and drug den. And then my husband and I went out for a quick grocery trip. Here’s the thing Mr. Berry – it’s not just Downtown.

Council has an item on tomorrow night’s agenda, another discussion of how to “move forward” with the Warren Settlement, which ends in January. That’s not soon enough for some local business owners, who want enforcement NOW. Of course they plan to start in the “city center,” meaning Downtown.

It’s already begun – we’ve seen the camps moving from city owned property into the outer limits, along the waterways again, on commercial properties, sidewalks, in areas that have been routed a thousand times over the past 10 years. Mr. Berry talked about a tent we’ve seen, snuggled right up on the city parking lot, under a large old cedar, for weeks. He remarked on the full size propane BBQ the person had set up right next to the tent about a week ago. Yeah, I get it.

But my concern is where will they go? I already know they’re under bridges all over town. These are people with serious drug and mental health problems, they can’t just check into a hotel. They are the “service resistant,” and that will be the main topic of tomorrow night’s discussion. I’m sorry, I both resent and feel deeply sorry for these people, and it’s given me plenty of mental health issues of my own. I really resent the people who have turned these troubled individuals into a commodity.

Another problem that has been festering for years, and the city acts as though it just happened yesterday. The city has been taking millions of dollars from the state for years – Chico is a bonified shareholder in the Homeless Industrial Complex.

A lot of that money has gone to fancy new buildings at the Jesus Center, very comfortable air conditioned offices for very well compensated staffers. They completed 59 apartments onsite – I don’t know who lives in them or what the qualifications are for residency, but they are hardly spartan. They’re building a treatment center on Fair Street, we’ll see how that turns out. I worry that they spend too much money on salaries and sundries, and that limits the number of people they can actually serve.

The problem also remains, that as we take people off the street, more arrive in the various camps around town, and you see more on the streets in a state that could hardly be considered “human”. Is it because we provide these services at all? Should we have some system for sorting out those who “came from somewhere else” so we can serve more of our local community?

We need to answer those questions, because it seems every trip my husband and I make out into Chico we see more and more scarier transients. Yesterday, sitting in the truck to protect our tools while my husband picked up groceries at a local store, I was startled by a man who suddenly appeared in the sideview mirror. You might laugh if you saw me sitting in our truck, all eyeballs in the rearview and sideview mirrors, surveilling the parking lot like Barney Fife, but yesterday, and many times in past, I’ve noticed other people, usually men, standing watch on the pick-up truck.

This man’s head and face were so red, peeling from the sun, as he jerked along like a string puppet, a crazy look on his face, that my dog immediately stood up on the console. A man sitting nearby in his big black work truck was perched against his steering wheel, with the same look on his face as my dog.

Our walker was a big guy, and he was ranting about life in general, when he suddenly grabbed something out of his baggy jacket and threw it at the ground – a liter size plastic bottle of pink lemonade, a big bottle, it exploded all over the place. Crank makes people violent and strong, despite their emaciated appearance. Then he looked right at me and I got ready to roll up the windows and honk the horn, but he walked forward and angrily kicked the bottle. Then he headed for the busy street and I thought we were rid of him.

At that point my husband appeared at the driver’s window. He’d seen the guy from the store, so he was in a hurry to get out of the parking lot. The man had loaded three bottles of pink lemonade into his jacket and left the store without a peep from the checker. Just when I thought he was gone the fellow turned on his heel and started back toward the store. My husband got in the truck and we drove. I couldn’t help but think, a lot of retirees shop in the center, there’s a coffee shop and one of those hobby stores.

We’d been mowing lawns all morning so we headed for our favorite taco wagon. We saw a man standing at the window as my husband headed over to order our usual – a big-ass burrito to share. When he approached the window he stopped short. The man in front of him was jabbering at the gal in the wagon, and I noticed, the owner from the nearby store was approaching the rear door of her vehicle.

The other man said something to my husband and motioned him forward, while he approached the back window. He seemed to be trying to convince the woman of something, she was standing back from the window, and the man from the store was behind her. My husband turned on his heel and came back to our truck – no burrito today – the other guy had been covered with runny sores, he was babbling nonsense at the lady in the truck, and she had called the store owner to help her get rid of him. My husband said the guy was all over the order window, and it grossed him out so bad we went home for a bowl of ramen instead.

I was reminded of the Hepatitis A outbreak in several big west coast towns, including San Diego. In that case, a group of men who had come to town to see a concert contracted the disease from an sidewalk table at a restaurant.

Chico followed Grants Pass, Oregon, onto this path. When my husband and I visited Grants Path a few months ago, our hotel in Medford having raised their rates, we found the entire town to be somewhat DEAD. Like a bomb had gone off. The camps were gone, everything had been cleaned up, but life had not returned. Is that what’s ahead for Chico?

I believe there is a human solution to this problem, but so far, it’s been all about the money, and you know money makes people weird. And I have to ask myself – where did all those people go after they were kicked out of Grant’s Pass?

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Keep Squeakin’!

18 May

So, the squeaky wheel gets the grease? Both the Downtown “revitalization” and the sewer rate increase have been put on ice because the public made some racket?

The important thing to remember is, it’s election time, and our leaders get bigger ears whenever they feel that cold breeze across their butt cheeks. Unfortunately, some people think their money talks louder than the rights of the rest of us taxpayers.

I don’t like Stoble Coffee, it’s just Starbucks with a different name and a “local” owner. When I walked in for a quick whirl, the noise level was so intense – people were shouting over each other. But it seems popular enough, and they contribute sales tax to the bottom line. I don’t have to like every business Downtown. I’ve also seen a lot of “flash in the pan” businesses over the years, that have folded up suddenly and left town, for whatever reason. Lately it’s been bad – that’s part of what is killing Downtown – the old familiar places and faces are changing, and the new places don’t stick around long enough to make an impression.

So, the thought that these Happy Wanderers would try to screw my district representative out of a vote because she also owns a business Downtown is positively offensive. According to the FPPC, ” Recusal is not required if the council member’s interest is indistinguishable from the effect on the general public.” Reynolds has also been a voice for long-time business owners who won’t be able to sustain a long-term project.

This wouldn’t be a “revitalization” for many businesses, it would be the last nail in the coffin – following really bad decisions made during the “Shelter Crisis”, COVID and subsequent downturns. It would be devastating to see businesses that fought to survive those disasters, only to be put down by further bad decisions made by the city of Chico. And especially ironic because the of the millions and millions in funding the city received for those incidents. Like the $24 million they are seeking for bike lanes, on street dining/alcohol, and “traffic calming“.

Yes, the city and the Downtown Business Owners Association have a responsibility to keep up the streets and (arguably) the sidewalks, and especially the sewer. That is all the “revitalization” Downtown needs. Business owners should never have to worry that they will be cut off from the public for any reason. Harken back to the time the sidewalk collapsed in front of Kona’s, then located on Broadway – the city told the business owner he would have to replace the sidewalk and drainage at his own expense. Kona’s – a really popular sandwich shop/bakery for years, also supplying bread to other shops – ended up relocating to Nord.

But the word “revitalization” has been enlarged beyond basic necessities to encompass a total makeover, a remodeling, changing stuff that we’ve had for over 100 years, stuff that makes Downtown special to those of us who have been paying property taxes in this town before Mr. and Mrs. “Stoble” ever showed up on the horizon.

I knew the districts would be bad, and here’s another reason – if our rep has to recuse themself it means our entire district is disenfranchised. These people, all seven, make decisions that affect all of us, and we only get to vote for one of them?

So Reynolds has my vote, for better or worse, as many times as I’ve disagreed with her and called out her poor decisions, I’m with her on this one.

Thanks Kasey. Keep squeakin’ Chico.

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Get those ballots turned in

15 May

Well it was hard but I finally finished my ballot and took it to the post office the other day. I don’t think I’d mail after today. I signed up for updates regarding my ballot from the secretary of state’s office, and that has worked out for me the past couple of years. If I don’t get a confirmation by May 31, I can go to the county and ask for a provisional ballot.

I made notes in my info guide, just in case. That was a lot of work, reading up on all those people, but I tried to be scientific. But, my husband and I argued – should we vote for people who actually represent our values? Like the guy who says he’ll protect Prop 13? Or should we vote for people who we think are more likely to win? He agreed with me on the “lesser” offices, but we voted for different candidates for governor, we’ll see what rough beast comes round in November.

Frankly, the only candidate that has made me feel strongly about turning in my ballot is Gallagher. I think he’s actually made progress in controlling PG&E rates, and he’s worked hard at getting more support for fuel reduction. I think he needs to work harder on both of those. I think he could get a lot more federal funding for fuel reduction, since the feds own a lot of property here.

What troubles me about Gallagher are his connections with Chico political action committees and the Butte County Republican party. I don’t like big politicians who use their campaign money to meddle in local elections, especially when they don’t even live in the county they’re sticking their thumb in. Gallagher needs to run his own campaign and stay out of Chico and Butte County elections.

Here’s what I reminded myself as I filled in the bubble – it’s an important seat, and his Democratic challengers are terrible, neither is qualified for the job. Worst of all, they’re engaged in a nasty little shit-fight between themselves, neither of them has much to say besides generalizations about the problems that are really facing the voters.

Whatever you choose to do, I’d get that ballot in soon.

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Election 2026: Wow, so many choices, mostly bad – have you ever been to a crap shoot?

11 May

I’ve had my voter information guide and my ballot for days, and I’m still shaking my head. When I visited a friend of mine two days ago she flipped her ballot out and laughed, “what the hell am I supposed to do with this?”

Unfortunately, most of my friends are very liberal, and I value their friendship more than politics, so I just shook my head and laughed back. One of my friends still has her Harris/Walz sign in her yard, I really want to kick it, but I just smile and ask about “things”. After the election, we all have to live in the real world together.

I have no answer for her anyway. Just over two weeks until the election and we are faced with all these names, strangers – some of whom do not even come up except on the ballot. How are we supposed to educate ourselves before we vote?

I started to read the “information guide,” but I found that pretty fruitless. For one thing, a lot of the candidates opted out of the guide, because they didn’t want to agree to the spending limits.

Whatever you do, don’t turn on the tv or look at social media, it’s just plain ugly.

I’d say the easiest way to approach this mess is the process of elimination. For one thing, if I can’t find anything on a candidate, they’re out. Frankly, this time, Democrats are out, period. And I’m holding my nose while I vote for some of the Republicans. People who take money from the agencies over which they are supposed to be watching, are out. Some of the candidates say things in their statements that are offensive to me – they’re out.

One useful thing the info guide tells us is where the money is coming from. Candidates who take money from the agencies over which they are supposed to be watching, are out – the insurance commissioner, for example, is supposed to be looking out for the customers, not the insurance companies. And so on.

The problem is, there is very little information to go on, aside from their statements. It’s a crap shoot.

In my experience, shooting at crap, usually means, crap everywhere.

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