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The Abqjournal: Elect Parks Bernco Probate Judge
ABQJOURNAL OPINION/EDITORIALS: Journal Selections in Bernalillo County Races
Willow Misty Parks for Probate Judge
There are no educational or licensure requirements for probate judges in New Mexico; the law basically says each county must have one, and it’s a part-time position that pays $28,000 a year.
But probate judges fill an important role with the potential to touch many lives. They mostly deal with the transfer of property of people who have died, whether or not there’s a will. (Serious disputes go to district court.)
So it is a plus that Democratic candidate Willow Misty Parks is a lawyer who has specialized in wills, trusts, probate and business law. She received her law degree from the University of New Mexico in 2003.
Her interest in probate-related issues has led her to teach at UNM and Central New Mexico Community College and give presentations for groups as diverse as the AARP and the New Mexico State Bar, where she is a volunteer attorney in its Elder Law Section.
Her legal background will enable her to work with everyone from lawyers to regular folks handling their own cases.
The Journal recommends voters elect Willow Misty Parks for Bernalillo County probate judge.
ABQJOURNAL OPINION/EDITORIALS: Journal Selections in Bernalillo County Races
While the journal speaks of the ‘plus’ that Parks is an attorney experienced in this area of the law, they won’t say that her opponent is just the opposite: a non-lawyer who knows nothing about probate.
Who Profits When Government Shuts Down? The Rich and Big Corporations.
If Republicans take the House – which they won’t succeed in doing – they’ll be fighting among themselves over which to do first: Undo everything Democrats have done or impeach Obama. And they will impeach him, the damn fools, as their last hurrah before the whole country slaps them down in 2012.
In the absence of any tangible or new policy solutions, Republicans are promising one concrete action should they win a majority in Congress: government shutdown. Picking up on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s two-tiered strategy, many Republicans are supporting Gingrich’s call to defund “every radical bill passed by the [Democratic] machine,” particularly the health care reform law.
Government shutdown would seriously jeopardize aid to vulnerable populations like veterans, Social Security and Medicare recipients, and 33 million Americans in need of health insurance. To defend such a disastrous strategy, Republicans are now shifting the blame on to President Obama.
The Party of Oh No
Eugene Robinson – 2010: The year of politicking insanely
This isn’t politics, it’s insanity.
I know that O’Donnell is likely to lose to Democrat Chris Coons. But until Election Day — at least — we’re supposed to take her seriously as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate. Sorry, but I just can’t do it anymore.
Nor can I pretend that Carl Paladino, the raging bull from Buffalo, is qualified by experience or temperament to be governor of New York. Or that Sharron Angle, whose small-government philosophy is so extreme as to be incoherent, could possibly make a worthwhile contribution as a senator. Or that Rich Iott, whose idea of weekend fun is putting on a Nazi SS uniform and gamboling through the woods, is remotely acceptable as a candidate for the House.
When has there been an election with so many looney tunes running under the banner of one of our major parties? It’s not that they are ultraconservative, or even that some of them believe their psychic powers let them know what the Founding Fathers would have thought about, say, stem-cell research.
mjh loves crushed frozen raspberries and blueberries with yogurt and Mer’s homemade granola.
Yummy.
This Election is IMPORTANT – Vote!
ThinkProgress » ThinkFast: October 14, 2010
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) said this year’s midterm elections may tip the balance to the Republican Party for the next decade. Barbour suggests this midterm election will be one of the most important in recent memory due to both the effect of the 2010 U.S. Census and the number of gubernatorial seats that are up this cycle.
ThinkProgress » ThinkFast: October 14, 2010
Your vote is important. That said, I recall Karl Rove declaring a generation of Republican majority following 2004.
Don’t Surrender and Don’t Accept Premature Reports of Defeat
Study says cell phones affecting polling « New Mexico Independent
By Matthew Reichbach 10/14/10 7:39 AM
The amount of cell phone-only households is affecting the polls in electoral contests, a study released by the Pew Research Center suggests.
“In three of four election polls conducted since the spring of this year, estimates from the landline samples alone produced slightly more support for Republican candidates and less support for Democratic candidates, resulting in differences of four to six points in the margin,” Pew reported. “One poll showed no difference between the landline and combined samples.”
Pew says that the effect is even more pronounced when it looked at likely voters.
In that case, the poll without cell phones showed that 50 percent supported a generic Republican candidate while 43 percent supported a generic Democratic candidate. The same poll including cell phones is 47 percent to 44 percent in support of the Democrat.
This suggest that polling firms who do not include cell phone-only households could be understating support for a Democratic candidate.
Auto-dial pollsters like Rasmussen Reports, SurveyUSA and Public Policy Polling use this technology to keep down costs. This is why these pollsters poll more often than those who use live phone calls.
Study says cell phones affecting polling « New Mexico Independent