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2015 US Elections

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While the odd year elections do not have anywhere near the turn out of even year elections, there were issues to be voted on this year. In Ohio, there were three statewide issues:
  1. An issue to make redistricting more bipartisan
  2. An issue to prevent monopolies from being directly codified into the state constitution.
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  3. An issue to allow legal marijuana, but with only 10 producers in the entire state (outside of production by individuals for individual use).
The last two are going head to head, with results expected this evening.

From what I remember, three states are also electing Governors (Kentucky, Mississippi, & Louisiana).
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Nothing particularly important here in Georgia. A few state legislature seats, a few mayors, some pissant issues like whether Tybee will open a municipal pool or raising some county sales tax by one cent. I don't much expect the status quo to really change.
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Nothing interesting tonight except the ohio issues.

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Yeah. Right now, with 48% reporting Issue 2 (anti-monopoly) is passing 53-47 while Issue 3 (legal weed) is failing 65-35.
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Colorado voted on whether the state could keep and spend $66 million it collected in marijuana taxes, which looks like it's passed.
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I'm honestly surprised that one passed, and by such a wide margin. I personally supported it, but I thought a strange bedfellows coalition of anti-tax nuts and potheads, both of which we have in abundance, would strike it down hard.

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TimothyC wrote: And[*]An issue to allow legal marijuana, but with only 10 producers in the entire state (outside of production by individuals for individual use).[/list]
What is the reason behind the maximum number of producers?
Do they want to ensure that drugs keep turning out profits mainly for large corporations like in the past?
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salm wrote:
TimothyC wrote: And[*]An issue to allow legal marijuana, but with only 10 producers in the entire state (outside of production by individuals for individual use).[/list]
What is the reason behind the maximum number of producers?
Do they want to ensure that drugs keep turning out profits mainly for large corporations like in the past?
In essence yes, it was pitched as "legal marijuana just like Colorado and Washington" but inside the bills were the cartel details saying it just so happens these ten producers already pre-picked would be the only ones allowed in the market and had the right to set prices and were a legal cartel by fiat since all the require law changes were included with the bill.

A clever trick, but one that failed thankfully.

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Well looks like we've elected a Tea Party favorite here in KY for Governor. :banghead:

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In my district, we only had to vote on supreme and civil court judges the great majority of us likely never heard of and a district attorney who ran unopposed. I should also mention as a county, only 5% went to the polls overall! Democracy in action!
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