7th November 2018, 10:22 PM
The races in Oklahoma were closer than expected. Sure, 8 percentage points is a lot in elections these days, but I'm used to seeing dems down in the 30 or less range, so seeing several in the 40s was nice. Gerrymandering here played a part for sure, my own district is a rather bizarre shape, but it is good to see changes like that. Too bad about our governor though...
Oh, and the state question results were pretty solid too. I voted "no" on all of them. That one initiative that's hitting states all over the place for "victim's rights" has some things I like (notifying the victim when their assailant is released I can totally get behind), but there's way too much that changes the assumption of innocence, like the right to refuse outright to speak with the defendant's lawyer. A weaker version of this bill with just the simple protections from already convicted violent offenders would get my vote, but it doesn't matter, it's the one bill that passed. I'm very glad Walmart's law failed. They wanted to remove OK's ban on eye doctors working directly inside stores, so they could get away with taking over that entire medical industry by forcing solo eye doctors out of business, and then of course pressuring the ones that do work in their stores to sell sell sell.
Oh, and the state question results were pretty solid too. I voted "no" on all of them. That one initiative that's hitting states all over the place for "victim's rights" has some things I like (notifying the victim when their assailant is released I can totally get behind), but there's way too much that changes the assumption of innocence, like the right to refuse outright to speak with the defendant's lawyer. A weaker version of this bill with just the simple protections from already convicted violent offenders would get my vote, but it doesn't matter, it's the one bill that passed. I'm very glad Walmart's law failed. They wanted to remove OK's ban on eye doctors working directly inside stores, so they could get away with taking over that entire medical industry by forcing solo eye doctors out of business, and then of course pressuring the ones that do work in their stores to sell sell sell.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)