Your vote for Governor, 2006

[WalterMitty]

ill vote for kerry healey (r), who is currently the lt.governor.

[WalterMitty]

why is lovelace running against an incumbent republican?

[WalterMitty]

what are some positions of this lovelace cahracter?

[WalterMitty]

what are some positions of this lovelace cahracter?

His four main positions (in no patricular order of importance) are:
1. No to school vouchers.  (I'm somewhat in favor of vouchers myself, but Sanford's idiotic voucher plan would have spent most of the money for vouchers on students that already go to private schools.  Besides, except for providing a bully pulpit, it's a issue that a Governor has no effect on, given the way this State is run.)
2. Be more involved in recruiting businesses to the state than Sanford has been.
3.  Raise the cigarette tax (lowest in the nation) to pay for better primary health care for the poor (and thereby lower local government costs and thus thier taxes).
4.  Property tax reform and reduction.

He's not tacking any social issues, but then neither has Sanford, so that's a wash.  He won't appeal to the arch-libertarians, but there's enough here that Lovelace shouldn't alienate too many Republicans and he has a much better chance than Sanford of attracting independents and Democrats in the primary and in the general election.  If Sanford had shown some competence in being governor these past three years, I'd be supporting him, but he hasn't and while I don't agree 100% with Lovelace, I can tolerate him and he shouldn't  be any worse in the job and likely will be better than Sanford.  As I said earlier, my support for Lovelace is soft.  It's my support for Campbell in the LG race that is drving my politics for the next three months.

i agree with all 4 of those points.

[WalterMitty]

what are some positions of this lovelace cahracter?

His four main positions (in no patricular order of importance) are:
1. No to school vouchers.  (I'm somewhat in favor of vouchers myself, but Sanford's idiotic voucher plan would have spent most of the money for vouchers on students that already go to private schools.  Besides, except for providing a bully pulpit, it's a issue that a Governor has no effect on, given the way this State is run.)
2. Be more involved in recruiting businesses to the state than Sanford has been.
3.  Raise the cigarette tax (lowest in the nation) to pay for better primary health care for the poor (and thereby lower local government costs and thus thier taxes).
4.  Property tax reform and reduction.

He's not tacking any social issues, but then neither has Sanford, so that's a wash.  He won't appeal to the arch-libertarians, but there's enough here that Lovelace shouldn't alienate too many Republicans and he has a much better chance than Sanford of attracting independents and Democrats in the primary and in the general election.  If Sanford had shown some competence in being governor these past three years, I'd be supporting him, but he hasn't and while I don't agree 100% with Lovelace, I can tolerate him and he shouldn't  be any worse in the job and likely will be better than Sanford.  As I said earlier, my support for Lovelace is soft.  It's my support for Campbell in the LG race that is drving my politics for the next three months.

He sounds pretty horrible overall. Go Sanford!

what is so horrible about them?

i especially support the cigarette tax increase.  each state should tax those at least $2 per pack (along with smokeless tobacco).

[WalterMitty]

what are some positions of this lovelace cahracter?

His four main positions (in no patricular order of importance) are:
1. No to school vouchers.  (I'm somewhat in favor of vouchers myself, but Sanford's idiotic voucher plan would have spent most of the money for vouchers on students that already go to private schools.  Besides, except for providing a bully pulpit, it's a issue that a Governor has no effect on, given the way this State is run.)
2. Be more involved in recruiting businesses to the state than Sanford has been.
3.  Raise the cigarette tax (lowest in the nation) to pay for better primary health care for the poor (and thereby lower local government costs and thus thier taxes).
4.  Property tax reform and reduction.

He's not tacking any social issues, but then neither has Sanford, so that's a wash.  He won't appeal to the arch-libertarians, but there's enough here that Lovelace shouldn't alienate too many Republicans and he has a much better chance than Sanford of attracting independents and Democrats in the primary and in the general election.  If Sanford had shown some competence in being governor these past three years, I'd be supporting him, but he hasn't and while I don't agree 100% with Lovelace, I can tolerate him and he shouldn't  be any worse in the job and likely will be better than Sanford.  As I said earlier, my support for Lovelace is soft.  It's my support for Campbell in the LG race that is drving my politics for the next three months.

He sounds pretty horrible overall. Go Sanford!

what is so horrible about them?

i especially support the cigarette tax increase.  each state should tax those at least $2 per pack (along with smokeless tobacco).

Freedom hater.

i love freedom.

but freedom isnt free.  you want to suck on a cigarette or slober tobacco juice, you must pay up.