From the category archives:

Elections

Kevin Mullin for State Assembly

May 31, 2012

Back in college, a friend who was a fellow politics major noted that people had to lead a pretty squeaky clean life to go into politics, for fear of doing anything that could be embarrassing in a campaign or anything that could possibly offend anyone else. This ruled out a lot of our classmates, we [...]

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San Mateo County Special Election: Tyranny of the Majority?

April 28, 2011

The phone is ringing with robo-calls and we’ve gotten a slew of election-related junk mail almost every day, but it’s not really election season. San Mateo County is holding a special election to fill a vacancy in a district that is not my own, yet because of our at-large voting rule, my neighbors and I [...]

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Why Didn’t John Boehner Cry at the State of the Union Speech?

January 28, 2011

In a life full of uncertainty, it’s nice to know that there are some things that you can always count on.  Death.  Taxes.  And John Boehner crying. John Boehner’s propensity for crying is well known. He cried on election night last November.  He cried on 60 Minutes.  He cried when he was sworn in as [...]

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Voting for Toddlers

November 1, 2010

Two more days until the election is finally over. Two more days and I can’t wait. Can’t wait for the endless calls to end. Can’t wait for the countless commercials to interrupt my peaceful TV watching. I’m not the most political of people. If I’m honest, I’ll admit to not being political at all. Not [...]

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California on the Verge of Going Republican

October 29, 2010

Growing up in Marin, it feels like Barbara Boxer was always my elected official. As a kid, we had a potholder that said Boxer with a box around the x, back when it only took an x or a check mark to vote for your candidate of choice. That was a long time ago, back [...]

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Why I Don’t Watch Political Debates

October 18, 2010

I have watched political debates religiously in the past. I majored in politics in college and when I was young, I would even take notes to make sure any relevant points, lines or zingers were remembered. That was before the internet, when information wasn’t as readily available and debates were – theoretically – one of [...]

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Prop. 19: One Mom’s Stance on Legalizing Pot

September 29, 2010

What luck that California has put legalization of pot on the ballot in November. I don’t actually smoke it at the moment, although I have inhaled, usually immediately prior to an embarrassing coughing fit. Both sides of my family have an interesting history with drug: my mom not only scored some for my grandma when [...]

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