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Blue_true

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February 17, 2018

Florida House Seat flipped, republican to democrat.

Margaret Good defeated the republican by 3000 votes in the Sarasota Florida district special election. Not sure whether this was covered on DU earlier this week.

February 10, 2018

I refused to sign a ballot petition today.

I was out and about this morning and came upon a guy asking for signatures to put a candidate on the ballot. I asked what party, he said republican, I said no, I support democrats and walked away. The guy was courteous, but even with that, I view him as a wolf in sheep's clothing, given the likely bent of the potential candidate he is collecting signatures for.

I usually have no issue with signing ballot petitions, I can always vote against stuff that I don't like. But republicans outnumber democrats in my county by just under 2:1, if the guy gets on the ballot, he will not have my democratic signature helping him reach the threshold. BTW, there are lots of Independents here, about the same amount as there are democrats.

I have no regrets about the choice that I made.

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