Bettie: A plea to LV residents

[Bettie]

PLEASE, if you are registered, remember to vote in the upcoming election (early voting going on right now). Only 25% of all registered voters in Clark County vote in any given election, which is deplorable. Dig out your sample ballot, check out the Voting Guide on the LVRJ website, dust off your voter's card, do a little research and show up at the polls. Too many people running have connections to serious money problems, ethics violations, or are involved in lawsuits like you wouldn't believe.

I personally spent about 5 hours researching all of the positions with which I was unfamiliar (there are 16 people running for sheriff alone!), pored over all of the mailers I got, looked up every candidate website, and read every single newspaper article on the elections I could find. If you don't have that kind of time, vote for the positions you do have an opinion on and skip the others - it's totally allowed (you don't want to accidentally vote for the woman who's since died, do you?).

Though I have done all my research, I am waiting to see the candidates' financial records before I vote (Republican frontrunner Gibbons will be in the casinos' pockets if he wins!), just in case there's some info I missed or a connection to G-Sting or other corrupt money, but I will be at the polls bright and early on the 15th!

Bettie

[LVBear584]

(you don't want to accidentally vote for the woman who's since died, do you?).

I am a registered Libertarian, so I don't get to vote for the deceased (possibly murdered?) Republican candidate Kathy Augustine. (Nevada is a closed-primary state.)

If I was a Republican, I would vote for the dead candidate in this race. Not to turn this into a political discussion, but I believe the two other candidates are totally unqualified, as was the "ethically-challenged," impeached and convicted former State Controller Augustine. In Nevada, if a dead candidate wins a party's primary, the party gets to choose its candidate, and it doesn't have to choose one of the losing candidates. The party's choice may be less bad than the two stiffs who are running against the dead person.

[Praying Mantis]

> In Nevada, if a dead candidate wins a party's primary,
> the party gets to choose its candidate, and it doesn't
> have to choose one of the losing candidates. The
> party's choice may be less bad than the two stiffs who
> are running against the dead person.

Maybe that's why she's leading!

Regards,
PM