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Dan Hintz

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St.. Paul, MN
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Posted on 05/23/13 at 01:40 pm in response to Ranked-choice voting: Minneapolis data show people use it with sophistication

194,000 people cast ballots in the election. 84,000,or 43 percent,of those votes went to Lee. 57 percent of voters cast ballots that did not go for Lee. That makes him a plurality winner. That is not my personal view. Those are just the facts.

Lee did have a majority of the 141,000 votes that either went to him or the second place candidate. But to say that he had a majority of the votes is no different than throwing out the votes for Horner and the other third-party...

Posted on 05/14/13 at 05:41 am in response to Minnesota Senate joins House in approving same-sex marriage

The governor has actually signed dozens of bills this session. That is something you can actually look up.

Posted on 05/10/13 at 05:20 pm in response to House's historic same-sex marriage vote greeted with eerie silence — and then roar from the masses

to have that kind of insight about God. To know that you are right about God and those who disagree with you are wrong.

Posted on 04/16/13 at 03:13 pm in response to Vaccine fear-mongering has muffled legitimate research on vaccine safety

If you want better vaccine research, stop promoting criminals like Andrew Wakefield. This isn't about malfeasance or mediocrity. Wakefield is a fraud and a liar who was stripped of his medical license. If you are unwilling to accept that there is and never has been a proven link between vaccines and autism, you have no business criticizing anyone else's research.

Posted on 04/16/13 at 07:02 pm in response to Vaccine fear-mongering has muffled legitimate research on vaccine safety

First of all, its not Dr. Wakefield. His medical license was taken away and has not been reinstated. He remains unable to practice medicine, not that he was doing that anyway.

I actually read the link you provided, and the reason that Walker-Smith got his license back was that they could not prove that he was guilty of the transgressions that Wakefield was guilty of. The article indicates that Walker-Smith tried to distance himself from Wakefield's conclusion even early on....

Posted on 04/17/13 at 02:45 pm in response to Vaccine fear-mongering has muffled legitimate research on vaccine safety

Wakefield was not attacked for telling the truth, because he didn't tell the truth. He lied. He wasn't just wrong - his research was fraudulent. He made things up. And his medical licence was revoked because he experimented on children without consent. Wakefield is a monster who has done nothing but exploit families of autistic children, and who has contributed to the deaths and illnesses of other children whose parents were scared out getting their kids vaccinated.

The really...

Posted on 04/14/13 at 09:50 pm in response to Minnesota for Marriage holds state-wide rallies to oppose gay marriage legislation

Is it really petulant to ask for the same civil rights as everyone else? Do you really think that the people for whom this legislation has real-world consequences should have to wait because some people are uncomfortable?

Some day when same sex marriage has been legal for awhile, people who made these kind of arguments are going to be really embarassed.

Posted on 04/13/13 at 08:09 pm in response to Lots of chances to see me (and a few education experts, too)

Here is a link to a review of Perry's book with a differing opinion:

http://www.buffalospree.com/Buffalo-Spree/November-2011/Education-2011-T...

In effect, the review argues that Perry is a con man offering the same unproven or outright false union bashing...

Posted on 01/07/13 at 01:04 pm in response to Ranked choice voting is achievable and effective

The entire premise of this article is false. RCV is no more likely to eliminate plurality winners than the system we have now.

San Francisco had an RCV election in 2011. Mayor Ed Lee received 59,775 first place votes out of 194,418 votes cast (30.7 percent). After all the second and third place votes were re-allocated, Lee was up to 84,457 votes (43.4 percent). The second place candidate, John Avalos, had 57,160 (29.4 percent) after the second and third place votes were reallocated...

Posted on 01/08/13 at 12:02 am in response to Ranked choice voting is achievable and effective

Your statement that "RCV fixes this" is false. RCV does not eliminate wasted votes. While RCV can distort the will of the electorate, my point in using the Oakland and San Francisco elections was to point out that RCV did not produce majority winners and resulted in a lot of wasted votes. The entire premise of RCV is a sham and people are figuring that out.