Ballot Issues - A Community Conversation
The Tacoma Public Library and The League of Women Voters are hosting a community conversation on Wednesday night exploring the key issues facing voters in Tacoma and Pierce County this November. The evening will be moderated by The News Tribune’s Peter Callaghan. Issues include:
- Initiative Measure No. 1033 – Concerns State, County and City Revenue
- Referendum Measure 71 – Concerning rights and responsibilities of state-registered domestic partners
- Pierce County Proposed Charter Amendment 1 – Move election of Council members and the Executive to odd-numbered years by 2015 and increase term limits from two consecutive four-year terms to three
- Pierce County Proposed Charter Amendment 2 – Move election of Auditor, Assessor-Treasurer and Sheriff to odd-numbered years by 2015
- Pierce County Proposed Charter Amendment 3 – Eliminate Instant Runoff voting and restore the primary and general election system for all county elective offices
Any questions? Can you join the conversation?
Details
Wednesday, September 30th at 7 p.m.
Olympic Room, Main Library
1102 Tacoma Avenue South
Filed under: elections, Get-Involved
10 comments
C Courtney September 30, 2009
BOOOOOOOOOO 1033!
1 1420 September 30, 2009
screw the three four-year consecutive term measure-damn you pierce county council! :) do you really think it’s ok to be stuck with anyone for potentially 12 years? Who are they kidding?
M Mofo from the Hood September 30, 2009
captiveyak, What do you know about myopic penguins with rusty switchblades?
C captiveyak September 30, 2009
captiveyak, What do you know about myopic penguins with rusty switchblades
Mofo, I know that they are gathered on the ice shelves of the frozen south — switchblades gripped in grim beaks — waiting to advance northward into Puget Sound upon the passage of Measure 71. Once here, they’ll be looking for some vacant Class A+ office space from which to rule the State.
And I know that you don’t mess with them unless you’re curious about tetanus.
J jamie from thriceallamerican September 30, 2009
Oh, badass, we just happen to have some Class A office space with a Sound view becoming vacant in the near future…
M Mofo from the Hood October 1, 2009
What’s black & white & red all over?
Sunburned myopic penguins with rusty switchblades.
J jamie from thriceallamerican October 1, 2009
I’ll save everybody the inconvenience of using your valuable time to get informed on these measures by telling you all how to vote. You trust your vote to my judgment, right? Good.
Yes on R71.
No on everything else.
If you really want to vote yes on something else, Charter Amendment 2 wouldn’t be the end of the world as long as #3 gets rejected.
Thank you, drive through.
R RR Anderson October 1, 2009
I’ll endorse comment No. 8
M Mofo from the Hood October 1, 2009
Sometimes I think to myself, “Why don’t these ballot issues circulate with pictures?”
R Rick Jones October 1, 2009
Mofo, if they’re sunburned, where’s the white? Some place I shouldn’t look?