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Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
13% Turnout - Town Election Results - Apr 12 2011
Full vote counts/totals are at the Needham Patch.By all accounts, turnout for Tuesday’s election was extremely light. Out of 20,159 registered voters, only 2,793 voters participated in the election for a turnout of 13 percent. By the afternoon, poll workers at precincts G and H reported seeing few Needhamites at the polls....“The people who are coming out are mostly an older crowd,” another worker added. “We usually see a lot of younger people come out early so they can vote before work, but we haven’t seen that at all.”
Read more: Low turnout, expected results for town election - Needham, Massachusetts - Needham Times
For SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Kim-Marie Nicols (1,515) elected and Michael Greis (1,874) were re-elected
For PLANNING BOARD
Bruce Eisenhut (1,389) re-elected
Our friends in Precinct G, Katy Dirks (136) and Scott Muldoon (169), both were elected to Town Meeting (2 year and 3 year terms, respectively)!
Congratulations all!!
Today is ELECTION DAY in Needham! (Tue Apr 12)
And it looks like very few people are voting--only around 275 votes cast by 12:30PM in precincts G and H. (which are usually high turn-out precincts--so other precincts probably even lower).
POLLS ARE OPEN UNTIL 8PM.
Don't know your precinct? Check here: http://wheredoIvotema.com
Full ballot guide provided by the League of Women Voters
FWIW, here's who I'm supporting for the contested seats:
SCHOOL COMMITTEE:
Michael Greis and
Kim-Marie Nicols
(both endorsed by the Needham Times)
PLANNING BOARD:
Bruce Eisenhut
(endorsed by the Needham Times)
And if you live in PRECINCT G (votes at Broadmeadow)--for TOWN MEETING--
please vote for our allies and friends K. Scott Muldoon (3 year seat) and Katy Dirks (2 year seat)!
PARKS AND REC:
I am supporting the WRITE-IN CANDIDACY of ANDREA SHORTHOSE, 11 GAGE STREET. (you have to write-in full name and address)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Framing our values/winning the argument
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| the cinephile in me loves this 'frame' |
(April 4, 2011, Maddow, "Winning the Argument": Yes. Exactly:)
Framing OUR Values
- Lakoff, Words That Don’t Work | Common Dreams (Dec. 7, 2011)
- Cheap Labor Conservatives: Perhaps it's a little harsh, but I think that the essential point is correct: the conservative's central ideology revolves around an economy that keeps a workforce dependent on whatever scraps the wealthy few are willing to share.
- George Lakoff, The Dems Need to Speak to Progressive Values, or Else Lose Badly Come November | News & Politics | AlterNet (Sept. 2, 2010)
- Lakoff/Framing "Occupy Wall Street" (via DailyKos, 10/2011)
- Framing: The Key to ‘Selling’ Sustainable Ideals « Dan Smolen (Oct 2010)
- The Secret List Of 14 Words That Republicans Are Never Supposed To Use (Luntz's secret playbook) (10/30/2011)
- How the Press Erodes Our Belief in Government | The Nation (4/9/2012) http://bit.ly/GGAbdy
- The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt - NYTimes.com (REVIEW) (3/2012) http://nyti.ms/GSvkn4
Haidt argues that people are fundamentally intuitive, not rational. If you want to persuade others, you have to appeal to their sentiments. But Haidt is looking for more than victory. He’s looking for wisdom. That’s what makes “The Righteous Mind” well worth reading. Politics isn’t just about manipulating people who disagree with you. It’s about learning from them.
- N Kristof - Politics, Odors and Soap (3/22/2012) - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/GG0uEp
- Another way of putting it is this: Americans speak about values in six languages, from care to sanctity. Conservatives speak all six, but liberals are fluent in only three. And some (me included) mostly use just one, care for victims. “Moral psychology can help to explain why the Democratic Party has had so much difficulty connecting with voters,” writes Haidt, a former liberal who says he became a centrist while writing the book.
- What the Left Gets Right - NYTimes.com (1/22/2012)
- What the Right Gets Right - NYTimes.com (1/15/2012)
Hilarious and on-point. Colbert and Frank Luntz want to convince you People are Corporations (10/24/2011)
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
War, Military, Defense
- Bwwahahahaha... :( Mitch Daniels (OMB) in 2002: THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE COST; WHITE HOUSE CUTS ESTIMATE OF COST OF WAR WITH IRAQ - New York Times (12/31/2002)
- The administration's top budget official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion, a figure that is well below earlier estimates from White House officials.
- Cost of war since 2011
- Losing Our Way - Bob Hebert NYT, 3/2011
- we are pouring shiploads of cash into yet another war, this time in Libya, while simultaneously demolishing school budgets, closing libraries, laying off teachers and police officers, and generally letting the bottom fall out of the quality of life here at home
- What $312 million (MD jackpot) can buy: 1 Day in Afghanistan - baltimoresun.com (3/2011)
- Casualties of War | (2011) ...a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home.”
- The Veteran Suicide Epidemic - AlterNet (6/13/2012) http://goo.gl/LlklC -- Now that our troops are actually coming home from Iraq, many are killing themselves. Why?
- 10 ways Libya 2011 is not like Iraq 2003 Juan Cole (3/2011)
- Condi Rice Blind To Hindsight On Iraq: 'It Was A Security Threat' | ThinkProgress (Nov 2, 2011) http://bit.ly/soa3fA
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Spotlight on the Senatorfold
Looks like Scott Brown is becoming more and more like Mitt Romney--his positions change whenever it is convenient. Thought he was a moderate? Maybe he was. Well he's not any more.
The senator, who probably hasn't looked at the bill he supports, simply didn't believe it. Brown kept arguing that the Blunt Amendment is only about religious freedom. He's wrong.
The Republican proposal aims to allow all private-sector employers to deny any health services that businesses might find morally objectionable. Do you work for a grocery store owner who opposes contraception? You're out of luck. How about an accounting firm that doesn't like HIV tests? Too bad. Are you an employee at a factory that finds cervical cancer screenings offensive? Good luck to you.---
--The Maddow Blog - Scott Brown stumbles on policy basics
We know he loves attention!
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