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.
Chico Taxpayers Association 