Philadelphians to vote on Troop Redeployment in Primary

[Keystone Phil]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/16762663.htm

I think that it is ridiculous that we are voting on this type of stuff especially in a city election.

Our Council voted to put this on the ballot last week. All three Republicans in Council voted against it. This will hurt one my Councilman - the only Republican district councilman in the city - who happens to be in a semi-tough race. Now his opponent can say that my Councilman "supports" the Iraq war.

The wording of these questions is notoriously biased, too. Should we "redeploy U.S. troops out of harm's way in Iraq?"


I'll be part of the roughly 5% to vote against this.

[Keystone Phil]

It's dumb, badly-worded but not unprecedented.  They're effectively advisory votes that are summarily igniored (not that Bush would pay attention to a national advisory vote on the matter).

I know it's not unprecedented. It's simply being used as a campaign issue. Like I said, this helps the Dems in my Councilmanic district. They just have to have every district seat. 

[Keystone Phil]

The question at this point is will the city GOP put "Yes" to this question on our sample ballot? Both parties usually put "Yes to all ballot questions" but I'm wondering if this case will be different for the GOP.

[Keystone Phil]

What the hell has this got to do with governing the city of Philadelphia

Dave

Bingo

These members would admit that it has nothing to do with the city and they're proud of doing this for partisan reasons.