Running GREEN in Southern Maryland

[Ken King]

everybody here is sufficiently Internet savvy so like where is the link........to the Green Party site?

Internet savvy folk would find it at http://www.mdgreens.org/

 

[JPC, Sr.]

Faith Without Works is Dead.

Internet savvy folk would find it at http://www.mdgreens.org/

Whatever would I do without KK?

I have the link to the Green here,

JPC,SR. Campaign Website, Links Page, Green Party link under letter "G".

The point I was trying to make was that the Green Party poster needs to make the Green Party link available.

I have my Democrat links ready.

 

[FromTexas]

Whatever would I do without KK?

I have the link to the Green here,

JPC,SR. Campaign Website, Links Page, Green Party link under letter "G".

The point I was trying to make was that the Green Party poster needs to make the Green Party link available.

I have my Democrat links ready.

Is that by KK's authoity? He lives here by the Chesepeake.

 

[residentofcre]

Ok... What's your opinion on the LNG expension in Calvert County?

What would you do to turn the tide and stop the expansion before it destroys the land that is supposed to be protected.

What's your plan on telecommunications to alleviate the traffic situations in Southern Maryland?

Would you offer incentives for companies who adopt telecommunications as a viable option?

Would you seek out and support opening the cable industry to encourage some real competition and lowering the cost of quality telecommunications infrastructure?

When would you support the idea of public funds for private infrustructure? Lets say a community has a small boat launch on the Bay that is in close proximity to a major shipping area, as well as a mall private airport already utilized by first responders in the event of an emergency. Let's say that private boatlaunch has been damaged and needs repair. Would that be a good reason to use public funds for private infrastructure?

Just a couple of questions I have been working on in my campaign.

Oh and on a personal note.... what's your view on the ban on partial birth abortion?

I think the answer was to check the website.... but I went to the green party website and couldn't find a link.. [must admit I didn't look very hard]

Would you please get me a link or answer the questions... Meanwhile Ron Miller looks pretty good against Steny...

 

[willie]

So far, I'll go with Miller over Steny.

 

[MMDad]

• Putting responsibility, accountability and integrity back into politics

• Campaign Finance Reform – no PAC’s

Shall we dump all amendments, or just the first? PACs are free speech.

• Fair housing costs for the middle and lower classes, mandates on the production of lower and middle class housing for all developments.

So you want to mandate what people build on their property. Sort of Marxist aren't you?

• National Health Care – will save the average family $4,000 to $6,000 per year

If my taxes go up $10,000 but I no longer pay $6,000 for helath care, did I really save anything? I have relatives in Canada. They come to the states if they need real health care. It won't work.

• Reformat Social Security for stability. Not personal accounts.

Do you actually have a plan? Or are just jumping on the bandwagon?

• Reformat our Immigration policies to supplement the work force as needed but establish fines for hiring illegals, and current illegals go to the end of the line.

These are the current policies, they just aren't being enforced. If you aren't going to do anyhing, just say so.

• Strict oil conservation laws to include
o Fuel economy mandates

Like what? How much, when, etc?

o Bio-diesel usage

This is a bandaid that makes people feel good about, but does nothing to stop oil dependency or the environment.

o Stop the tax on ethanol imports (we don’t tax the oil, why the ethanol)

You might want to check your facts here. There is a federal tax. A little research goes a long way.

o Have mandatory Hybrid manufacturing quotas

Hybrids are another bandaid like bio-diesel. If we have twice as many cars on the road, but they get twice the MPG, have we accomplished anything?

• Properly fund the No Child Left Behind Act and change:
o Change it to discourage drop outs

What do dropouts and NCLB have to do with each other? Do you really think schools can fix the problems in our society that cause kids to drop out?

o If schools are failing it does not make sense to take their funding away

So we should through good money at bad schools. Great idea.

o Include full time Pre K

This is just getting crazy. You obviously know nothing about education, or you wouldn't even suggest this. Full time pre-K would help at risk kids who need intervention and have parents that will enroll them. It is of no use to most kids.

o Fund after school programs
o Provide funding for teaching the arts and other creative activities.

At the federal level? No way. That is a state issue.

• War in Iraq
o Our troops need more then the 2.7% pay raise presently proposed

I agree that our troops deserve more, but what is the right number for you? How do you fund it?

o We do not need 14 new military bases in Iraq or a 88 acre Embassy

You are right on this one. There should be at least 20 bases, and the embassy should be twice that size.

o To be able to withdraw our troops we need to enlist the peace keeping forces of the UN

Yeah, the UN is sooooo effective. The UN created the current Isreal. If Isreal relied on the UN for their security, do you really think that there would be a single living Jew in Isreal?

o Develop a withdrawal plan.

There is a plan.

o Spend our reconstruction money on the infrastructure, not military bases

We are building infrastructure. Are you saying we shouldn't provide security for those who are building the infrastructure?

o Properly fund the VA – Currently there are homeless Iraq Vets, and Health care wait times are extraordinarily long

Yes, the VA needs better funding. Homelessness and the VA are two separate issues and should not be confused.

o Vets should receive free care at every facility in the US (so should every other American.

This should say "so should every other comrade." As a Vet, I don't deserve free medical care for life just because I served, and I would not be satisfied with the low quality health care a national system would provide.

• Environmental
o I support preserving the Chesapeake Bay and all its tributaries.

That's an easy bandwagon to jump on. I predict no candidates will argue that we should have more pollution in the bay.

o Re-fund the super fund - this fund has not been funded in years

Is there a need, or do you just want to fund it?

o Management of our natural resources belong in the hands the government not corporations.

As they currently are. Good thing you won't be changing anything.

o Development must include re-forestation
o I support a national recycling program.
o I support more stringent national emission standards.
o I support the development of wind generation and solar power.

How?

o Environmental impacts must be assessed prior to the approval of all development projects.

As they are now. Do you really want to add a federal layer of bureauracracy to the process? What would that do?

o Drilling in Alaska and off our coast will not bring our fuel costs down and will only contribute to the continued under funding of alternative energy sources.

Agreed, but what would you do instead?

 

[2ndAmendment]

I have been disturbed with the division within our political system and the fact that the divide seems to be growing deeper, for several years. After having many debates, discussions and exchanging ideas with several friends and relatives, I have come to the realization that I don't want to wait for someone else to change system. If I want to institute change, I need to be instrumental in directing the changes.

Therefore ---- I have decided to run for the 5th District Congressional seat against incumbent Steny Hoyer under the flag of the Green Party.

My Platform includes:
• Putting responsibility, accountability and integrity back into politics
• Campaign Finance Reform – no PAC’s

OK. But everyone says that.

• Fair housing costs for the middle and lower classes, mandates on the production of lower and middle class housing for all developments.

Why should government dictate to private industry? Did our country become communist recently? I know it has been tending that way since FDR.

• National Health Care – will save the average family $4,000 to $6,000 per year

Never. Never. Never. Lost my vote.

• Reformat Social Security for stability. Not personal accounts.

Social Security should never have been created in the first place. The best way to get rid of it is privatization now and eventual complete pull out of government.

• Reformat our Immigration policies to supplement the work force as needed but establish fines for hiring illegals, and current illegals go to the end of the line.

Nope! Toss the illegals out. What don't you understand about the word "illegal". If they get in line, arrest them and deport them.

• Strict oil conservation laws to include
o Fuel economy mandates

No mandates. Government dictating economic policy has gotten us where we are; all screwed up. Few, if any, in government understand economics, certainly not the live high, lawyer types.

o Bio-diesel usage
o Stop the tax on ethanol imports (we don’t tax the oil, why the ethanol)

OK

o Have mandatory Hybrid manufacturing quotas

Five year plan? Sounds like the communists are taking over.

• Properly fund the No Child Left Behind Act and change:
o Change it to discourage drop outs
o If schools are failing it does not make sense to take their funding away
o Include full time Pre K
o Fund after school programs
o Provide funding for teaching the arts and other creative activities.

Are you kidding? Increased funding is not the problem. Teachers that are teaching because they like summers off are the problem. I'd scrap the NEA except that would be government intervention.

• War in Iraq
o Our troops need more then the 2.7% pay raise presently proposed

OK

o We do not need 14 new military bases in Iraq or a 88 acre Embassy

Why?

o To be able to withdraw our troops we need to enlist the peace keeping forces of the UN

Who do you think caused this problem? I think the U.S. should withdraw from the U.N. and let it collapse.

o Develop a withdrawal plan.

You mean surrender plan, right? You only withdraw after you win. Even then, you might not if it is to your advantage to stay.

o Spend our reconstruction money on the infrastructure, not military bases

Without someone to defend the infrastructure, the money on it will be a total waste.

o Properly fund the VA – Currently there are homeless Iraq Vets, and Health care wait times are extraordinarily long
o Vets should receive free care at every facility in the US (so should every other American.

OK for the Vets. For everyone - wrong answer. We will have a second rate medical system if it is ever socialized. How do you think the VA hospitals got so bad? Government control.

• Environmental
o I support preserving the Chesapeake Bay and all its tributaries.
o Re-fund the super fund - this fund has not been funded in years
o Management of our natural resources belong in the hands the government not corporations.
o Development must include re-forestation
o I support a national recycling program.
o I support more stringent national emission standards.
o I support the development of wind generation and solar power.
o Environmental impacts must be assessed prior to the approval of all development projects.
o Drilling in Alaska and off our coast will not bring our fuel costs down and will only contribute to the continued under funding of alternative energy sources.

OK. You're an eviro-nazi. Got it. And you already lost my vote, but this would have lost it if you hadn't already.

There are many other issues that I will address on my web site but this should give you all something to chew on.

The purpose of this email is to get your response.

SO LET IT FLOW !!!

 

[2ndAmendment]

This is on of our largest environmental problems. Our current standards allow for corporations to utilize and profit from the nations resources without cleaning up the messes they leave behind, without replenishment and without moderation. Corporations are suppose to serve to the benefit of our nation and its citizens.

Communist? Right? No! Corporations are suppose to serve to the benefit of their stock holders.

 

[2ndAmendment]

Actually, you just gave me a brilliant idea!

I can file to run for President, then print up a bunch of campaign materials (making sure I spell my name correctly) and put them all over in my neighborhood, get Somd.com to do a story on me , then forget the whole thing.

I'll have souvenirs for my grandbabies with very little money spent and no stress of actually running for office. "Look, little Hortense! This is from when Dodie ran for President! I carried my whole neighborhood!"

You'd might get my vote. I like most of your opinions.

 

[2ndAmendment]

That's it, JPC - show 'em how it's done!

I think he may already have.

 

[vraiblonde]

You'd might get my vote. I like most of your opinions.

Beware: I would legalize gay marriage!

 

[2ndAmendment]

Beware: I would legalize gay marriage!

OK. You lost my vote.

 

[JPC, Sr.]

Faith Without Works is Dead.

I think he [JPC, Sr.] may already have.

OMG,It looks like 2A has given me a compliment.

I am really touched, thank you 2A.

 

[vraiblonde]

I am really touched

But we knew that...

 

[2ndAmendment]

OMG,It looks like 2A has given me a compliment.

I am really touched, thank you 2A.

Thanks, but your accolade is undeserved, because you misinterpreted what you read like most everything you read.

To clarify. I said that it looked as if you had already advised warner2006, because his platform is so screwed up.

 

[Larry Gude]

This ought to be interesting...

OK. You lost my vote.

...do you think the Constitution prohibits gay marraige? If so, on what grounds?

Seems to me the 14th makes it explicitly Constitutional.

 

[wileyCoyote]

Beware: I would legalize gay marriage!

I would vote for this. I may not be gay, but I don't see what the difference is between a gay couple in a healthy long term relationship and a hetro couple in the same relationship. If it does me and mine no harm then why not.


....Anyone wanna bet on the nasty comments I get?

 

[2ndAmendment]

...do you think the Constitution prohibits gay marraige? If so, on what grounds?

Seems to me the 14th makes it explicitly Constitutional.

The 14th is largely misunderstood all the time. Show me where it is made Constitutional. If your are referring to the "equal protection" clause, all it states is that people must be treated equally under the laws of the state. It's meaning has been broadened drastically over the years with modern liberals (as opposed to classical liberals) trying to make the laws of one state apply in another state. The 14th does not do that. The timing (1868) and wording make it totally obvious that the intent was to apply to former slaves and the aftermath of the Civil War.

Amendment XIV (1868)

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

Section 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

 

[Larry Gude]

The question stands...

..do you think the Constitution prohibits it?

Do we agree that the Constitution enumerates certain specific, inalienable rights, including equal protection? Do we agree that it does not spell what the people can't do, only what they can do, no matter what?

To me, that makes it, yea or nay on gay marriage, a state issue which, to me makes it fine to either pass a law allowing it or denying it. The Constitution doesn't say traditional marriage is OK either. So, make legislators come out from behind the robes of courts and do what your constituents want.

Prohibition is the only one I can think of that limits and it applied to everyone.

I'm interested here, not trying to play gotcha. What do you think?

 

[2ndAmendment]

..do you think the Constitution prohibits it?

Do we agree that the Constitution enumerates certain specific, inalienable rights, including equal protection? Do we agree that it does not spell what the people can't do, only what they can do, no matter what?

To me, that makes it, yea or nay on gay marriage, a state issue which, to me makes it fine to either pass a law allowing it or denying it. The Constitution doesn't say traditional marriage is OK either. So, make legislators come out from behind the robes of courts and do what your constituents want.

Prohibition is the only one I can think of that limits and it applied to everyone.

I'm interested here, not trying to play gotcha. What do you think?

Agreed that it is a state issue. But .... BIG BUT ... as soon as some state makes homosexual marriage legal some modern liberal will use the expanded, misinterpreted 14th "equal protection" clause and impose homosexual marriage on all the rest of the states.

One of these days there will be an issue that will break the Union's back again. Slavery did it once; the war could have gone either way. This may or may not be the next issue, but there will be a next issue. I know that as a Christian, I will not turn my back on God's word to accept homosexual marriage. I don't care who says it is OK.