[statecom-discuss] BlueMass Group says vote for Jill

[Merelice]

Check out this Democratic blog....

http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5028

Here's what they said to start the discussion.
Merelice


Stein Wins Secretary of State Debatelet
by: Bob
Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 19:23:38 PM EST

My judgment after watching the five minute Stein-Galvin debatelet is
that Galvin is not fit to hold the Secretary of State's office. He
doesn't appear to respect the fundamental premise of our system of
government: the people are sovereign.
First, he insults every citizen of the Commonwealth by dragging us off
to some undisclosed location -- an undisclosed location for a freaking
Secretary of State's debate! -- for a "five minute" debate (which
actually ran 15 minutes ... like we should be on our knees weeping
tears of gratitude for the extra 10 minutes). Did Dick Cheney suddenly
decide to run for Massachusetts Secretary of State? We're paying him
$124,920 a year and he gives us 2.5 minutes of his time?!

Second, he refused to address virtually every substantive issue Stein
raised. Whenever the going got tough he attacked his rival's party
affiliation instead of answering the question. Party politics is not
the point -- although I have no doubt it is in the tortured minds of
the hackocracy, sweating fever dreams about the possibility of another
trough of patronage jobs. At one point, I believe, he even had the
gall to defend his office's handling of the Big Dig. The day a
Massachusetts politician goes on TV and says with a straight face that
anything involved with the Big Dig is a credit to his office is the
day you know he has completely lost the plot. Does someone have to die
before an incumbent will admit that project was mismanaged. Don't
answer that.

The point is decent government. Answer the questions: why has the
existing administration botched things so badly that we getting our
asses sued in multiple lawsuits by the Department of Justice for
voting rights violations; why aren't we in compliance with HAVA after
years to prepare; and why are we buying second-rate
Republican-controlled Diebold voting machines that run secret software
and can apparently be hacked by pretty much any election worker who
knows how to use Excel. These are not party questions, they are
democratic questions.

Take our advice and vote for Stein. Kudos to Keller, indeed, for
organizing the exchange and being a decent moderator. I wish he would
run for Secretary of State!

Bob :: Stein Wins Secretary of State Debatelet
Tags: Vote 9.19.2006, Jill Stein, Secretary of State, Bill Galvin, (All Tags)

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