I could go with a week before including the two weekends leading up to Election Day. If you can’t get it done in that time you don’t really care to vote.
Ah, Florida - words fail me.
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We have a Cactus League in Arizona because in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson joined the Dodgers, a bunch of teams didn't want their newly integrated teams to have to deal with Jim Crow laws in Florida. Perhaps it's time to mention to DeSantis that the remaining teams bring over half a billion dollars into Florida during spring training.
Perhaps you don't quite appreciate how difficult it can be for some people to vote--particularly when the government actively tries to make it difficult.
My 21 day on/21 day off schedule doesn’t care for that one bit
No, I'm tired of people trying to drag sports into this. The guy who wrote that WaPo article doesn't care because it doesn't affect him. How about just let these baseball teams do there thing, support the communities they are in and fans. This kind of nonsense is why the Braves lost the All-Star game when the organization did nothing wrong, the players did nothing wrong and the fans did nothing wrong. The move didn't hurt the government one bit but, it did hurt local businesses and fans.
I mean, why just ask MLB to do something? Why isn't this journalist basically asking all companies and businesses to leave the state. Why pick on baseball? Baseball leaving the state would not hurt the people you want to hurt.
I can't stand DeSantis as much as anyone around here but, he wouldn't care. Spring training baseball is not on his radar and he wouldn't care about those communities either. His original attempt to take over Reedy Creek would have saddled the area with huge tax debt but, he didn't care.
I've been out of the country many times for 2 weeks. Now, I'm usually not out for election week, but I have definitely voted 2 weeks early because I was going on a business trip to Japan for close to a week. Add the preparation for travel, family responsibilities, general work, and suddenly a week to find time to vote starts to get hard. There's just no responsible reason not to allow extra time for someone to vote unless you just want to reduce the number of people voting.
We should be automatically registering people to vote, teaching kids how to vote/practicing voting in schools, and creating a voting holiday (move a current holiday) as well. Then get rid of gerrymandering and we would be back on the way to be the beacon of democracy we often pat ourselves on the back for again.
But there are some who despise self-rule and the democratic process when it means they won't always get their way.
That's the bottom line with those in power, but they fool the rubes into being rubes for them.
they want to say who is and isn’t “the governed” in “consent of the governed”
Quick anecdote.
I was a sales manager in Fort Myers in the early 90's when the company I worked for won the grow in/3 year fertilizer contract for both the Minnesota Twins spring training facility (run by Lee County) and later the Boston Red Sox spring training facility - it was called the City of Palms Park - and run by the City of Fort Myers.
It was a pretty big deal - lot of money involved plus the prestige.
Most of the product was drop shipped but I would make various runs out to each facility when they needed something in addition to what was being drop shipped.
I have a photo somewhere of me in my Dodge Dakota delivering a truck full of Rye grass seed for over seeding.
I suspect he's suggesting that MLB to do something in this case because they've done similar things before (the aforementioned All Star Game). Also, spring training recently started, so it's kind of topical...
MLB is a business. And businesses put pressure on politicians ALL THE TIME.
As for Desantis, I suspect he would care a lot about the massive PR black eye he'd get from losing spring training--it would be far, far worse than losing a one-time event like the All Star game.
"That's a nice spring training league you got there, Ron...
...be a shame if something happened to it."
You mean like the super bowl?Quick anecdote.
I was a sales manager in Fort Myers in the early 90's when the company I worked for won the grow in/3 year fertilizer contract for both the Minnesota Twins spring training facility (run by Lee County) and later the Boston Red Sox spring training facility - it was called the City of Palms Park - and run by the City of Fort Myers.
It was a pretty big deal - lot of money involved plus the prestige.
Most of the product was drop shipped but I would make various runs out to each facility when they needed something in addition to what was being drop shipped.
I have a photo somewhere of me in my Dodge Dakota delivering a truck full of Rye grass seed for over seeding.
Of course, you just have three guys running around out there and not twenty-two running into each other...
How would nine days of early voting including two full weekends with the Sunday included, along with absentee voting being available for military or other needs, such as, long distant working or medical issues limit voting?
Serious question.
What most people want is to make voting as easy as possible without making it easier to vote fraudulently.
What politicians want is whatever will help them win. The R's have gone so far as to not care a whit what the people want. Rather they will do whatever it takes to win, even if that means sending a mob to take over Congress.
I've always early voted because my feet and legs hurt when I stand for a long period of time. In Tennessee, we generally get 15 days of early voting that starts 20 days before the election. That works great for me.
I've read where some Native Americans live 40-50 miles from the polls with no way to get there. These people need mail in ballots. Lots of people do.
Al long as it's a fair election, how someone casts their vote shouldn't make any difference.
WATCH: Ron DeSantis pledged to sign an extreme six week abortion ban, before many women even realize they’re pregnant. Florida Republicans just introduced it:
Uncommonly decent of you.
Seriously, not only is early voting easier than submitting an absentee ballot, it is (in Georgia, at least) a lot less prone to error.
Don’t get me wrong I love visiting norther California. Food is great, wine country is great, hiking is incredible.
Southern California is just no my thing though. I hate LA. I hear San Diego is nice, but I’ve never been.
Southern California is just no my thing though. I hate LA. I hear San Diego is nice, but I’ve never been.
for my previous job, i had to make a few trips up and down the san joaquin valley via l.a. and fresno and spent more than a couple of nights in bakersfield. did not like it at all.
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