Lions and Eagles

This is for all my theatre friends in the Atlanta/Fulton County area. Now if you know me, you know that I love theatre. I have been onstage, backstage, in the box office, on a theatre board, and many, many times just in the audience. I married a beautiful actress that I met while doing Shakespeare, and many of my dearest friends are theatre folk. I've been excited to support community theatre, professional theatre, educational theatre, puppetry, dance, and more. This is about the news that the Fulton County Arts Council almost lost their funding from the county recently. At the recent County Commission meeting, it came down to a decision between supporting the actors or new beds for the women's prison, and it looks like some of those ladies are just going to have to sleep on the floor for a bit. So, if you're a woman in Fulton County, try not to go to jail, okay? You know that I love and support the arts. At the same time, my wife and I have been listening to a lot ...

Last time I did one of these voting guides, I had some friends say, "Thanks, but we need one page we can just print off and take to the ballot box!" Well, here you go! Here's the quick list (along with links to get back to my reasoning, just in case you want to check my work).

Part three of this November's voting guide, now we tackle the ballot questions! Two Constitutional Amendments, one Tax! Unless I decide to wade into the Presidential race at some point later on, this will be the last of it. Please read on....

Now for the next race on my November ballot: Fayette County Board of Education:

Hey, we're almost down to a month before Election Day! The voting guide I did for the primary was such a huge help, especially for the local races, I'm going to do it again! I'm going to skip over the Presidential election for now. We can come back to that later, if we have time. I want to focus for a bit on those easily-missed races, the state and local offices and the ballot questions. Those offices are much closer to home than the Presidency, and all too often we just don't give them the attention they deserve. Let's start with the Georgia Public Service Commission. We have two seats up on the ballot for this race. For the primary, I voted for one incumbent, and against another. I'm going to do so again this time around. Here's why:

I voted today! Have you voted yet? Here's just a quick one-page cheat-sheet version of my voting guide, I printed this out and brought it to the ballot box this morning: Public Service Commissioner 1: Chuck Eaton Public Service Commissioner 2: Pam Davidson House of Representatives: Kent Kingsley Sheriff: Barry Babb Tax Commissioner: George Wingo County Commissioner 1: Charles W. Oddo County Commissioner 2: David Barlow County Commissioner 3: Randy C. Ognio Board of Education 1: Barry Marchman Board of Education 2: Mary Kay Bacallo State Court: Carla McMillian Magistrate Court: Jason B. Thompson Gambling: No Ending unlimited gifts: Yes Gun licenses for young military: Yes Closing primaries: No Personhood: No T-SPLOST: No Package sales: Yes

Quick update to my voting guide, I'm changing my vote for U.S. Representative. Details below.