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David Galitz

St. Anthony, MN
Commenter for
5 years 10 weeks

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Posted on 10/11/12 at 10:00 am in response to Bachmann, Graves introduce Graves to voters — in their own ways

Perhaps Michele should remove the beam from her eyes before accusing someone else of lying.

Posted on 10/11/12 at 02:11 pm in response to Bachmann, Graves introduce Graves to voters — in their own ways

I've seen nothing to indicate they're attacking the United Way per se.

They're accusing Graves of lying that he was on the board, when he actually served on a board level committee for the annual fund drive.

Posted on 10/12/12 at 10:48 am in response to Determined opposition to same-sex marriage shows indifference to human hardship

You know, legislators HAVE tried you approach. They've tried to grant
some of the rights of marriage to gay couples legislatively, without
calling it marriage. They've tried to grant health insurance benefits,
they've passed the "last wishes" bill, ensuring that a surviving
partner has rights to claim the remains of their partner, they tried
to ensure that couples will not be denied access to one another if one
is in the hospital.

All of those...

Posted on 10/11/12 at 10:12 am in response to Will constitutional amendments be key in deciding close legislative elections?

you mention the once a decade redistricting: that census is taken in April, when school is in session. The students are counted where they are living while in school (on the day of the census),

By barring them from voting in their college town, that district is getting undue representation, and their hometown is being underrepresented.

Posted on 10/11/12 at 10:16 am in response to Will constitutional amendments be key in deciding close legislative elections?

so 9 months out of the year (and for 4 years) isn't sufficient to establish residency?

I know adult, non-students that move every couple of years. some for job reasons, others, just because. is there some minimum number of years one must live in a community before they should be allowed to voter? We already have that, which is typically 30 days. How many years would you extend that to?

Posted on 10/10/12 at 09:57 am in response to LGBTQ youth group Justin's Gift denied entry into Anoka Halloween parade

I took a quick look at the guidelines on the chamber's parade site, and it does appear they don't accept political campaign walkers in the parade.

And it's not just Minnpost, the Chamber doesn't appear to be responding to ANY media inquiries.

Posted on 10/10/12 at 10:00 am in response to LGBTQ youth group Justin's Gift denied entry into Anoka Halloween parade

Although: even if the parade has grown bigger than just the town of Anoka, one would hope that being a local youth group (especially as a new applicant) would bump them up in the selection rankings.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 01:53 pm in response to Advocates for poor register homeless voters, worry about ID amendment

I've never had my drivers license "validated" at the liquor store. If they ask at all, it's because I'm using a credit card (and even then, it's rare they ask), and the most they do is visually check that the names on both are reasonably close.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 03:39 pm in response to Advocates for poor register homeless voters, worry about ID amendment

Voter ID goes far beyond that. You can use an expired DL at the store, you can use a DL with an old address.

Perhaps you also missed my point that having them check my ID is a very rare occurrence?

Second, we already have a check in system for voting. I have to give the poll worker my address, and I have to sign the poll register.

Posted on 10/08/12 at 10:21 am in response to Reporter who wrote about life as undocumented immigrant arrested in Minnesota

I'd feel no different about them than I did about the unlicensed, uninsured US citizen driver that hit, and sent me to the ER.