Monday–Last day to register to vote for May Primary
Monday, April 3rd, 2006 is the last day to register to vote for the May 2nd Primary. Visit Brewed Fresh Daily to get the details.
For those of you already registered to vote, now is the time to begin your voter education on the issues and candidates. This year you have a new tool at your disposal to help you–Meet the Bloggers.net. As many of you know, I have been working with a group of Northeast Ohio Bloggers to bring the candidates to you through podcasts. We feel that television and newspaper articles do not offer an in-depth look at candidates or the issues that face us today. What began in Northeast Ohio has grown statewide. We now collaborate with many statewide bloggers to bring you these podcasts and give you more information through blogposts. Visit the Meet the Bloggers website and see if it has value for you. We have transcripts of some of the interviews if you would rather read than listen. Some people listen and read. We do not have transcripts for all interviews, but we work tirelessly at trying to get them done.
I am also adding a page that will list political blogs so that you can click through and see if they add value to your quest. My list will, of course, not list all available political blogs–just those that I have found useful. If you have favorites of your own, please let me know. I will add them to the list. The beauty of blogs remains that they give you the ability to decide to read or not to read to get all sides of the issues or the candidates–unlike depending solely on newspaper reading in a one-newspaper town.
When you click through to Meet the Bloggers.net, you may notice a lack of incumbents and Republicans. We are working on that, and I would like your help. Let me know if you have contact with an incumbent or a Republican that you would like to see us interview. Better yet, contact that person’s office, and ask why he or she has not yet Met the Bloggers. Refer them to the Meet the Bloggers website: http://www.MeetTheBloggers.net.
The rule of thumb in political campaigns and the news media is that the average voter does not become interested in political campaigns until TEN DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION. Let’s prove them wrong. The issues and the future facing us today are too important. The decisions we make every time we vote affect not only us but our children and grandchildren–in other words, future generations. We need to again become the government of “We the people…”
Vote on May 2nd, and ask your friends and neighbors to vote– and if you have teenagers who can vote, make sure they are registered to vote, and the little ones–take them with you so they know the responsiblity and the importance of voting.
It is time to take back our government from the pollsters, the mainstream media (”MSM”!), and the career politicians. The more we vote, the less they can use statistical analysis to predict. Make it so our govrnment again becomes “of the people, by the people and for the people”.
Wow, this got pretty radical. Anyone for a tea party?