[Summit] Voting

Gayle Gifford gayle at ceffect.com
Tue Nov 6 22:23:12 UTC 2012 

After reading about Floridians waiting in line for 7 hours, my one hour wait
at 11:30 didn't seem terribly long. But there will be long lines tonight.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/no-one-in-america-should
-have-to-wait-7-hours-to-vote/264506/ 

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 16:41:49 -0500
From: Jeffrey Cavanaugh <jeff at cavanaugh.org>
To: Gloria L Johnson <glolynjo66 at cox.net>
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Two hours?  People have to get to work and stuff.

Why don't we have early voting?  Seems like it solves many problems.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Gloria L Johnson <glolynjo66 at cox.net> wrote:

> I am absolutely astounded that people are complaining about waiting in
> line vote!   This is such a priviledge....I will wait as long as
necessary.
>
> Gloria L Johnson
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> Ina Fuchs <imfuchs at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Just be happy that people care enough to vote!! That is what a 
> >democracy
> offers!!  In previous elections at the same place you could just walk in.
> No interested citizens in sight!  Be glad it wasn't raining or snowing!!
> >
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> >>   1. Re: Voting (Julia Steiny)
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:34:28 -0500
> >> From: Julia Steiny <juliasteiny at gmail.com>
> >> To: Craig Borges <craigborges at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: "summit at sna.providence.ri.us" <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> >> Subject: Re: [Summit] Voting
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> >> 2 hours at MLK.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Craig Borges 
> >> <craigborges at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ridiculously long wait at Summit polling on Hillside. Came this 
> >>> morning was told the wait was up to two hours. I'm back, to try 
> >>> again. Long
> line at
> >>> 3:20. This is no way to run a democracy. If I can't get out if 
> >>> here in
> less
> >>> them an hour I am going to have to forfeit my right to vote. It 
> >>> wasn't
> like
> >>> this when we voted at Fire station. Any thoughts on who was behind 
> >>> this change?
> >>> Craig Borges
> >>> 4th street
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
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> >>> On Nov 5, 2012, at 11:43 AM, summit-request at sna.providence.ri.uswrote:
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> >>>> Today's Topics:
> >>>>
> >>>>  1. brown water (Amanda Woodward)  2. Re: brown water (David 
> >>>> Schrag)  3. It's a crime! (Emlyn Addison)  4. Re: It's a crime! 
> >>>> (Art Norwalk)  5. Re: It's a crime! (JaNean Fisher)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>>>
> >>>> Message: 1
> >>>> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:45:57 -0800 (PST)
> >>>> From: Amanda Woodward <awoodward7 at verizon.net>
> >>>> To: Summit Neighborhood <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> >>>> Subject: [Summit] brown water
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>   <1352130357.95584.YahooMailNeo at web84507.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>>>
> >>>> Good Day
> >>>> Anyone experiencing brown water?
> >>>> Amanda
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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Message: 2
> >>>> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:48:46 -0500
> >>>> From: David Schrag <david at schrag.net>
> >>>> To: Amanda Woodward <awoodward7 at verizon.net>
> >>>> Cc: Summit Neighborhood <summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Summit] brown water
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>   
> >>>> <CAJ01qyOoYrFWFb7nR7PvNbJpfw39LuhNvwgWyqGbouX9GQ+kfw at mail.gmail.c
> >>>> om
> >
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>>>
> >>>> We did on 5th Street this morning. They shut off our water 
> >>>> service in the late evening and brought it back on line in the 
> >>>> wee hours of the morning. The water was only brown for a few 
> >>>> moments today before clearing up.
> >>>>
> >>>> We got a notice on our door on Friday that they were going to do 
> >>>> this, but the date was sometime in 2010. We had no idea it was 
> >>>> scheduled for last night.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Amanda Woodward <
> awoodward7 at verizon.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>> Good Day
> >>>>> Anyone experiencing brown water?
> >>>>> Amanda
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> Summit mailing list
> >>>>> Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
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> >>>
> http://sna.providence.ri.us/mailman/listinfo/summit_sna.providence.ri.
> us
> >>>>> SNA Website: http://sna.providence.ri.us/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Message: 3
> >>>> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:51:40 -0500
> >>>> From: Emlyn Addison <noisyblocks at gmail.com>
> >>>> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> >>>> Subject: [Summit] It's a crime!
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>   
> >>>> <CAEAT3MGmJDhudjErZtM8RgsUyTyq7avw30TjN=C1YgpjZxPR3Q at mail.gmail.c
> >>>> om
> >
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>>>
> >>>>> Isn't Mitt saying he won't raise taxes on the middle class as well?
> >>> It's
> >>>>> hard to keep track of what Mitt is saying.  It's not a choice 
> >>>>> between
> >>> being
> >>>>> fiscally conservative and socially just, the republicans are NOT 
> >>>>> the
> >>> party
> >>>>> of fiscal conservatism.  They are the party of small government.
>  Since
> >>>>> Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton years,
> republicans
> >>>>> have sought to starve the government of funds.  They are 
> >>>>> somewhat
> good
> >>> at
> >>>>> cutting taxes but not so good at cutting spending, particularly
> military
> >>>>> spending.  GW Bush cut taxes, did nothing to cut spending, and 
> >>>>> put 2
> >>> wars
> >>>>> on the credit card.  Reagan blew up the deficit as well, BTW.  
> >>>>> How
> can
> >>>>> anyone think republicans are a fiscally conservative party?  
> >>>>> Where is
> >>> the
> >>>>> evidence of that?
> >>>>
> >>>> True; I guess "fiscal conservatism" is in the eye of the beholder:
> "Hey,
> >>> if
> >>>> we cut all these social programs for those 47% of freeloading,
> thieving,
> >>>> victimized layabouts, then we're being fiscally conservative!"
> >>>>
> >>>> What is, perhaps, most egregious--and ironic--in all this is that 
> >>>> Mitt Romney apparently paid nearly zero income taxes between 1996 
> >>>> and 2009
> >>> (the
> >>>> year before the 2010 tax return he actually made public):
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/romney-avoids-taxes-via-looph
> ole-cutting-mormon-donations.html
> >>>>
> >>>> So Mr Romney, it turns out, is one of the 47%. Interesting.
> >>>>
> >>>> Emlyn
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> >>>>
> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Message: 4
> >>>> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 11:39:39 -0500
> >>>> From: Art Norwalk <art at norwalkcom.com>
> >>>> To: Emlyn Addison 
> >>>> <noisyblocks at gmail.com>,summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Summit] It's a crime!
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>   <
> >>>
> mailman.226.1352133829.8692.summit_sna.providence.ri.us at sna.providence
> .ri.us
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"
> >>>>
> >>>> Nowhere does this article say anything about how much tax Romney 
> >>>> paid between 1996 and 2009. The candidates do enough distorting; 
> >>>> they don't need help from us.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> True; I guess "fiscal conservatism" is in the eye of the beholder:
> >>>>> "Hey, if we cut all these social programs for those 47% of 
> >>>>> freeloading, thieving, victimized layabouts, then we're being 
> >>>>> fiscally conservative!"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What is, perhaps, most egregious--and ironic--in all this is 
> >>>>> that Mitt Romney apparently paid nearly zero income taxes 
> >>>>> between 1996 and 2009 (the year before the 2010 tax return he 
> >>>>> actually made
> public):
> >>>>> <
> >>>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/romney-avoids-taxes-via-looph
> ole-cutting-mormon-donations.html
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/romney-avoids-taxes-via-looph
> ole-cutting-mormon-donations.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So Mr Romney, it turns out, is one of the 47%. Interesting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Emlyn
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>> Summit at sna.providence.ri.us
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> >>>> ------------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> Message: 5
> >>>> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:43:48 -0500
> >>>> From: JaNean Fisher <jfchocomom77 at gmail.com>
> >>>> To: Summit Neighborhood <Summit at sna.providence.ri.us>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Summit] It's a crime!
> >>>> Message-ID:
> >>>>   
> >>>> <CAOV9mn-w23_v-=nvETREJQ1ut6j2UAD=aLRuwK64VUkkJzNmug at mail.gmail.c
> >>>> om
> >
> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>>>
> >>>> Seriously, only on the East Side could someone let everyone know 
> >>>> that
> >>> they
> >>>> had a break-in  to make others
> >>>> aware,and then be condemned for having security lights, not 
> >>>> having an alarm, blame the police for not doing their job, change 
> >>>> the entire thread of conversation to a political
> rant
> >>> (as
> >>>> though we haven't
> >>>> already listened to your drivel for the last 2 months!) as if 
> >>>> MItt/O
> were
> >>>> personally responsible.
> >>>>
> >>>> Focus and respond responsibly and keep your political opinions to
> >>> yourself!
> >>>> I care about a neighbor
> >>>> experiencing a problem and if I can help, I will. I don't care to 
> >>>> know
> >>> what
> >>>> you think about the election,
> >>>>
> >>>> JaNean
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Emlyn Addison 
> >>>> <noisyblocks at gmail.com
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Isn't Mitt saying he won't raise taxes on the middle class as well?
> >>> It's
> >>>>>> hard to keep track of what Mitt is saying.  It's not a choice
> between
> >>>>>> being
> >>>>>> fiscally conservative and socially just, the republicans are 
> >>>>>> NOT the
> >>> party
> >>>>>> of fiscal conservatism.  They are the party of small government.
>  Since
> >>>>>> Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton years,
> republicans
> >>>>>> have sought to starve the government of funds.  They are 
> >>>>>> somewhat
> good
> >>> at
> >>>>>> cutting taxes but not so good at cutting spending, particularly
> >>> military
> >>>>>> spending.  GW Bush cut taxes, did nothing to cut spending, and 
> >>>>>> put 2
> >>> wars
> >>>>>> on the credit card.  Reagan blew up the deficit as well, BTW.  
> >>>>>> How
> can
> >>>>>> anyone think republicans are a fiscally conservative party?  
> >>>>>> Where
> is
> >>> the
> >>>>>> evidence of that?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> True; I guess "fiscal conservatism" is in the eye of the beholder:
> "Hey,
> >>>>> if we cut all these social programs for those 47% of 
> >>>>> freeloading,
> >>> thieving,
> >>>>> victimized layabouts, then we're being fiscally conservative!"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What is, perhaps, most egregious--and ironic--in all this is 
> >>>>> that
> Mitt
> >>>>> Romney apparently paid nearly zero income taxes between 1996 and 
> >>>>> 2009
> >>> (the
> >>>>> year before the 2010 tax return he actually made public):
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-29/romney-avoids-taxes-via-looph
> ole-cutting-mormon-donations.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So Mr Romney, it turns out, is one of the 47%. Interesting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Emlyn
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
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