Principles

Voting Principles

Here are some principles I use to guide my voting.

1. Study (As much as possible.)
   • Read the analysis, candidate statements, arguments, rebuttals, whatever you can to get a clear picture of the candidate/bill.
2. For independent candidates, and sometimes measures, review the endorsements.
   • Unions are generally indicative of liberals, whether their teachers, or police, or whatever.
   • Police organizations are not indications of conservatism. There are hundreds of them and they come in all political flavors.
3. When in doubt, vote no.
   • Stability is important, and I generally don't think it wise to implement changes with ambiguous effects.
   • There is good reason to be suspicious that ambiguous and obtuse legislation is hiding something sinister.