Vote

[redbird]

It's election day in a lot of places in the United States today.

It's easy to ignore an "off-year" election, but if your city or town is electing a local government, that matters.

If you're in New York State, please vote yes on option 2, the transport bond act. (I'm voting for 1, a change to how the state does budgeting, but I'm less sure on that. And the proposed city charter changes are trivial, but seem harmless.)

Comments

[rosefox]

I'm very torn on the bond act, because I wholeheartedly support public transit, but I hate borrowing money and I really don't trust the MTA to spend it well.

[redbird]

In general, this is the sort of thing it makes sense to borrow for--it's more like getting a mortgage to buy a house than like putting a vacation on your credit cards because you can't afford to pay for it.

[rosefox]

There's still the MTA mismanagement to consider, though. *fret* I don't know. I'll read up on it some more and see what sensible people have to say about it.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Our elections was last Tuesday, due to some arcane reason about our Referendums C and D. Once again, I wished I knew more about our school board, but at least I was happy to be able to vote for Ref C. And it passed, getting rid of some of the worst abuses of our Colorado state income tax limitation amendment.