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...unequivocally oppose Question 2, a constitutional amendment proposal that would limit the voting rights of all incarcerated felons in the state of Massachusetts. Not only does the Massachusetts State Constitution explicitly state that incarcerated citizens retain their voting rights, but this very issue was also affirmed by the state's Supreme Judicial Court in 1977. Very few prisoners exercise their voting rights under the current system and it would be difficult to prove that incarcerated citizens' voting trends have influenced any election, be it in a positive or a negative direction. At its core, this question aims to dismantle...
...Question 3 addresses the issue of greyhound dog racing in Massachusetts, a disgraceful fixture in the state for the past 65 years. We urge voters to vote yes on this proposal, which would add Massachusetts to a list of 34 states that have already banned such cruelty toward animals. The national greyhound racing industry admits to killing thousands of dogs each year. While still alive, these dogs are kept in cages for 22 hours of each day. When the dogs stop turning a profit, their lives abruptly end. Although this worthy proposal would require that the state's two greyhound...
...passed, the fourth of the Massachusetts questions would gradually reduce the state personal income tax in the next three years down to 5 percent. We oppose this question based on its potential threat to the future of Massachusetts residents and especially its families. A vote against this resolution will assist the state in their efforts to improve public schools by decreasing class size and expanding early childhood education, open up health care accessibility for state residents and help build and stabilize Massachusetts' economy. Although the state has enjoyed a surplus in recent years, this money should be spent responsibly rather...
...obligatory first question to pass Sunday talk-show hosts' lips, but whenever it did, brother Jeb was there to field it with an appropriate verbal shrug. Yes, there were Democratic squawks from the likes of Bob Kerrey and Carl Levin, wondering why a man so audibly enamored of bipartisanship had been so quick to jerk a chin toward the Gore campaign as an orchestrator of the leak. But if the Republicans protested a little too much (Arlen Specter, we're looking at you and your post-election "hunch"), George W. still has the same slender edge in the national polls...
...that it's all about the base, the question is no longer if Gore has been playing too far left. It's whether he's been playing far left enough. Jeb Bush, who if he keeps up this rather dignified spinning ("Yes, it was a wrong assumption" that he could automatically deliver Florida) will be inspiring a flip-the-brothers vote by 2004, says the Republicans will win Florida and the White House because they're united and excited, and the reasoning is sound. Monday morning, Gore starts a 30-hour go-hoarse campaign marathon in which...