Tomorrow is Primary day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pierre.Suave]

WOOt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Avidor]

1. Who to Vote for? - Judges on my ballot

http://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/PollingPlace.aspx


ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 3 TIM TINGELSTAD NONPARTISAN
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 3 PAUL H. ANDERSON NONPARTISAN (incumbent)
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 3 ALAN LAWRENCE NELSON NONPARTISAN


ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 4 DEBORAH HEDLUND NONPARTISAN
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 4 F. RICHARD GALLO, JR. NONPARTISAN
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 4 LORIE SKJERVEN GILDEA NONPARTISAN (incumbent)
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT 4 JILL CLARK NONPARTISAN


JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 ELIZABETH (LIZ) CUTTER NONPARTISAN
JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 THOMAS R. SHERAN NONPARTISAN
JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 PAULA BRUMMEL NONPARTISAN
JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 CHERI SUDIT NONPARTISAN
JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 JANE RANUM NONPARTISAN
JUDGE -4TH DISTRICT COURT 53 DAVID L. PIPER NONPARTISAN

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. The Strib's website has a section on the various candidates

Most of the judges seem six of one and half a dozen of the other. Only Tim Tingelstad appears to be a stealth fundie.

Go to this site, enter your zipcode and address, and it will tell you your polling place and the names and positions of the candidates who will be on your ballot:

http://ww2.startribune.com/news/politics/elections/myvote/pf.php

[Bjorn Against]

6. I understand that Lorie Skyerven Gildea is a Republican as well...

Looking at the websites for the judges Gildea and Tingelstad were the two that I could tell were clearly right-wingers, so avoid them. The only candidate whose website really impressed me was Jill Clark, she seems to be someone who would be very fair and she seems to be someone who actually cares about civil rights. I am going to vote for her, but I don't know if I should go with Anderson or Nelson for the other seat if anyone has some guidance let me know.

http://www.jillclarkforjustice.org/

[trotsky]

7. Gildea is a Republican?

She's picked up some impressive endorsements.

Minnesota Professional Firefighters; Chief Justice Russell Anderson (retired); Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz (retired); Chief Justice A.M. Sandy Keith (retired); Al Quie; Mike Hatch; Leonardo Castro; Mike Freeman; Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers of Minnesota.

[glinda]

8. No to Tingles-head

I interviewed him for an article in Bemidji. No way no how! Super conservative XXXXXXXXXXX. Extreme views concerning the Constitution, History of the Country and on and on. Bad bad Tim!

[dflprincess]

4. 4th District Court Seat 53 - I'd go with Jane Ranum

she was a DFL state senator for a long time. She represented south Minneapolis, part (maybe all) of Richfield and part of Bloomington.

That's the only name I recognize.

Though I think the Kurt Anderson that's running as an independent in the Senate race may be the Kurt Anderson that I graduated (high school) with. He seems to be a tad more conservative than when I knew him.

[HopeFor2006]

25. I voted for Cheri Sudit

Based on a recommendation by a neighbor

[CatholicEdHead]

2. I plan on voting

[JfortheDonks]

5. Yep, I'm Voting, Too!!!

I hope there's a GREAT voter turnout Tuesday!!!

[CatholicEdHead]

9. I just voted!

I hope everyone else can make it sometime today before 8pm!

[Eric J in MN]

10. I voted for Al Franken today. Did you?

NT

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Of course!

And a bunch of other good people, too.

[loveable liberal]

12. What if Al won and in 4 years decided to run for president.....

And the absolute, most popular, charasmatic running mate had the last name of "Stein"..... Would that be a deal breaker?

[Eric J in MN]

26. Franken and Ben Stein have made joint appearances...

...so who knows?

[Owl]

13. Same here, though I wish it were for Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer.

Have to move on though!

Just so NO to Norm.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. With 1% of precincts reporting, Franken is leading Faris 2 to 1

Let's hope those figures hold. :crossfingers:

[Pierre.Suave]

16. yes

lets hope.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Good. I don't know what Faris' agenda is,

but it's not good. Maybe she inherited her father's egomania (yes, I know Miles Lord is a Democrat, but he's also an egomaniac).

[dflprincess]

18. Miles Lord was a good federal judge

but you are correct about his egomania.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Actually, he wasn't always even that good a judge.

Judges shouldn't be politically biased, and he was. Even though I agreed with some of his biases, judicial decisions should be based on the law, not politics. Lord sometimes mixed those things up -- and ended up with some his decisions getting reversed on appeal.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. With 6%, Franken's lead has widened

:-)

[Pierre.Suave]

21. yes

I was just goint to post that.

70% to 26%

YAY!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. As I recall from watching election returns with a mathematician gentleman friend

many years ago, there's a point at which the candidate who's behind can never catch up barring the unlikely event that s/he gets 100% of the remaining precincts. I wish I could remember what that point was, though.

[dflprincess]

23. We must have reached that point

because WCCO's website has called it for Franken.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. So has the Strib

:-)

[Pierre.Suave]

14. I just voted

it feels good to participate in democracy.