Learning the truth

[Chester32141]

Last time we had an election I was frustrated by the fact that I was unable to find anything out about the judges I was expected to vote for.  Now that we have another crop of campaign comercials I am struck by the fact that one commercial will say that the candidiate is the second coming of Christ and the next commercial will say he's the devil himself ... How can one find the truth about candidates ... certainly not by listening to the media or by reading the print ads ... 

What is the best way to learn more about the people we are expected to vote for ... 

[KD5NRH]

What is the best way to learn more about the people we are expected to vote for ... 

Read their entrails.

[Monkeyleg]

With local or state candidates you should be able to call and talk to them. Ask questions, but phrase the questions so that the candidate can't tell which side of an issue you're on. If you can't talk to the candidate, look at his or her record. If the candidate hasn't held office before, look at the organizations he's worked with or belonged to.

I try to talk to candidates as much as possible. I called one judicial candidate a few years back and, after enough questions, learned that she thought only the police and military should have guns.

[Standing Wolf]

Read their entrails.

That'll teach me to sleep in past 8:00.

[Bigjake]

Read their entrails.

Supposed to work with chickens..  Politicians are more chicken scat though...

[Boomhauer]

"Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals… speak on every subject… then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man."

That's how you can investigate your local policritters

[Perd Hapley]

Avenger wins the thread, and my vote for Special Investigator of Congress.

[Scout26]

"Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals… speak on every subject… then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man."

That's how you can investigate your local policritters

Then read their entrails. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Project Vote Smart is one good source - http://www.votesmart.org/.
Another is Google. (Unless they have a very common name like Judge Tom Jones)
In Oklahoma on judges we usually have a ballot question that asks "should Judge So-n-So be retained?" I just go down the line and mark NO for all of them. I don't think there has ever been a judge removed by ballot.

However I am really liking the idea of reading their entrails though.

[longeyes]

The electoral process in America has been on automatic pilot for too long.  People took it all on faith.  Good faith is what's going, fast.

[Marnoot]

In Oklahoma on judges we usually have a ballot question that asks "should Judge So-n-So be retained?" I just go down the line and mark NO for all of them. I don't think there has ever been a judge removed by ballot.

That's how they do it in Utah too. There actually was one judge removed by ballot a couple years ago here. I believe video of her had made the rounds on the internet of her berating a deer hunter, don't remember the specifics; but that was just one example of her horribleness. It's all about making it very well known that a specific judge is a putz.