New York City Making History-- Lower Voting Age to be Proposed on June 8

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


Governor: Marc Erlich
Senators: Mukulski (D)
Sarbanes (D)
Rep: Damn, i know him, but i am totally blanking on his name

Justices:
ginsburg
scalia
o'connor
kennedy
breyer
rehnquist
thomas
stevenson
crap, missing one.... grrr.

It's Stevens, not Stevenson, and you're missing Souter.

edit: as asleepatthewheel effectively pointed out already

[OzzyKP]

Doh, so much for being a poly sci major, with a career in politics, who lives outside of DC.

Guess I shouldn't be allowed to vote. Oh yea, I'm over 18, so it doesn't matter what I know or don't know about politics, cause my birthdate is far more important.

[mrmitchell]

Governor of AR: Mike Huckabee, R-AR (mixed feelings about him.)

Historical AR Governors:
Jim Guy Tucker
Bill Clinton
Win Rockefeller
Orval Faubus
Jefferson Davis (no, but being born in 1864 he was probably named after the President)
Ambrose Sevier

Historical AR Senators
Fulbright
Pryor
Hattie Caraway (the first woman ever elected to the Senate)

Mayor
Claybaker (not really fair. Everyone here knows who the mayor is because he's been mayor for at least a decade now.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by OzzyKP
Doh, so much for being a poly sci major, with a career in politics, who lives outside of DC.

Guess I shouldn't be allowed to vote. Oh yea, I'm over 18, so it doesn't matter what I know or don't know about politics, cause my birthdate is far more important.

The real question is, how well did you know this stuff at 16?

I'm 42. When I was 16, my senators were Charles Percy and Adlai Stevenson III; my rep was John Porter. The Supreme Court consisted of Burger, Brennan, Douglas, White, Marshall, Renquist, Blackmun, Powell, and Stevens. And no, I didn't have to Google any of that.

So, clearly, only I should be allowed to vote.

[GePap]

From experience, Bills get introduced to the City Council all the time. Heck, Dennis Gallagher from Queens has talked up proposing a curfew in the City after 10pm.

I have not heard about the Mayor or the City Speaker on such an idea- so I can't judge what the likelyhood of the bill passing would be. I guess this would have to be heard by the Youth and Elections commitees, probably will be a joint meeting.

This being an election year, this might get delayed-everyone is up for re-election this year, including Gail.

On a personal note, she is pretty competent most of the time, but she is from the upper west side and supposedly has 40 student interns, so obviously she cares for the youth.

[GePap]

And if anyone wants to speak their mind to Gail:

http://www.nyccouncil.info/constituent/email_form.cfm?con_id=28

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Flip McWho
Thats a bit cheap.

Would you rather I have attacked him on the maturity portion of his talking points instead if you think I'm cherry picking portions that suit me? This doesn't seem to bode well for youth being mature enough to vote as Ozzy alleges: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...31.html?sub=AR

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah, DD, but you forgot. Ozzy can just explain it away by saying the scientists were biased against youth.

[OzzyKP]

Heaven knows scientists are never biased, nor would they ever sponsor racist, ageist, or otherwise biggoted research.

http://www.racesci.org/in_media/NEW/perfect_race.htm

[DinoDoc]

Heaven only knows what that has to do with anything here though.

[Shi Huangdi]

"Rep: Damn, i know him, but i am totally blanking on his name
"

Rep. Chris Van Hollen

[OzzyKP]

Ah yes, thanks. Ask me on a day I'm not frazzled from working the whole time, and I'll be better.

[Imran Siddiqui]

DD.. am I good or what?

[DinoDoc]

You should seal the deal by calling 100-0.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

DD: don't you think its time you removed the Santa hat? Its so hot here in Boston I'm thinking about lining my bed with ice.