{"id":294,"date":"2003-12-18T19:43:59","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/quick-comment-on-state-and-local-political-stuff\/"},"modified":"2003-12-18T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T03:43:59","slug":"quick-comment-on-state-and-local-political-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/quick-comment-on-state-and-local-political-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick comment on state and local political stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff-austin.org\">EFF Austin<\/a> roundtable on eVoting Tuesday night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonplus.net\/blog\">Stepan<\/a> summarizes most of what went on and I added a comment. The bottom line is that many state and local governments have rushed to find a solution to the Florida 2000 election debacle and have in the process made some poor decisions. It&#8217;s going to take a little time, but these need to be remedied.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthekuff.com\/mt\/archives\/002753.html#002753\">there&#8217;s<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suite102.com\/baldo\/archives\/2003_12.html#001941\">lot<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burntorangereport.com\/archives\/000880.html\">blogging<\/a> on the arrest of a Cleburne woman for selling sex toys from her home. I share my fellow Texans dismay at this use of law enforcement resources. I&#8217;ve been getting more politically active over the past year or so and I&#8217;m going to continue that trend. I sent an e-mail to Eddie Rodriguez, my state rep, to see what I can get him to do on both of these issues. I&#8217;m a little green on what it takes for one voter to get some action on state and local government, but I&#8217;m hoping he or his staff can help point the way. I&#8217;ll keep you posted. I think all of the bloggers mentioned and anyone else who&#8217;s disturbed by these two developments should contact their reps as well. With all this blogging, it shouldn&#8217;t be too hard to get together a large enough number of people to force changes on both of these issues. I know the second one is kind of minor, but I gotta start somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the EFF Austin roundtable on eVoting Tuesday night. Stepan summarizes most of what went on and I added a comment. The bottom line is that many state and local governments have rushed to find a solution to the Florida 2000 election debacle and have in the process made some poor decisions. It&#8217;s going <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/quick-comment-on-state-and-local-political-stuff\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-4K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}