RE: [Nolug] governor's race

I read through his articles, and the re-occuring thought I had was 'This guy
must be listening to a very bad radio talk show'. But then again, at least
he's listening. He has good ideas of what the public majority wants, but
doesn't understand enough to make "good" judgements about them. To make the
kinds of cuts and changes he's proposing really needs years of study and
'first hand' evaluation. For instance, if you want to know how to fix
health insurance for the elderly, ask the 85 year old lady on Tonti who is
taking care of her two great-grandchildren alone on SSI. Or commission a
statewide departmentaly conducted survey on budget reduction by
streamlining. If no cuts can be found, eliminate the department head (this
is overly drastic, and proves my point about uninformed judgements).

Over all, he seems to genuinly want to improve the State. Like Paul said,
he more informative than most.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Paul Dunbar
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 02:50 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] governor's race

Agreed, and that's not the reason for this post.

He's not exactly running his platform based on this, its simply a small
part that caught my eye,
he seems to have the most outspoken position out of all the candidates,
and there are plenty of things where
I can easily go along with what he's saying because I don't know much
about some of the topics.
He's got just as much written in his platform regarding the environment,
health care,
rebuilding the job market, etc. I don't agree with him on everything.
In fact he seems almost too
tech-centric for me (taking the state gov't completely paperless is also
on his platform)
but to be honest, i wish all the candidates were this informative on
their intentions/opinions.
Most others seem to have a lot of stock answers/rhetoric, and nothing
nearly this transparent

I'm mostly posting to see who out there likes/dislikes this guy and why,
its hard for me to find
much info on him that isn't on his website.

Brett D. Estrade wrote:

>My first reaction is that this is something that any smart leader would
>look at anyway - unfortunately the field is thin on smarts. IMHO,
>running on a platform of using OSS would be almost as effective as
>Leach's attempt to get into office by riding this state minimum wage
>initiative and wanting to increasing tax on oil/gas.
>
>As much as I agree with what software to use and how to facilitate a more
>efficient administrative system for the state, I can't say that this
>alone is the basis for my decision for selecting a candidate.
>
>Brett
>
>

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