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Originally Posted by Scipio
I'm from Arkansas:
Voted for funding education, against discriminating against free American citizens, and for extending our painfully short congressional term limits (no experienced legislators = bad policy and lobbyist rule).
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Amen, brother.
Nearly any measure to increase funding to Arkansas schools will get my vote.
Extending term limits seems like the only sensible thing to do in this instance.
Discrimination based on homophobia is bad policy no matter how you look at it. In the land of the "free," I find it ironic that an initiative like this even made it on the ballot. I have yet to hear a valid argument for preservation of the "sanctity of marriage." If I did, I would expect it to extend to everyone not just an arbitrarily selected group.
All that being said, I doubt the first two will pass and am sure the third will. I've nothing to base this on other than my own personal episodes with the people in the area. Maybe the rest of the state will get it right because it's not looking too bright here.
Edit: In my haste, I forgot to add that I'm an Arkansan. We had a proposal to legalize marijuana as well, but it didn't get the required signatures to be on the Nov. ballot.