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Denver Rejects Vehicle Impound Law

post from TalkLeft on 03 November 2009 11:31:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Bump and Update: Vehicle Impound law is overwhelmingly rejected. Congratulations, Denver, reason and common sense prevailed. More here.

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Denver Votes on Vehicle Impound Law

If you live in Denver, don't forget to vote today and oppose the vehicle impound initiative mandating police seize your vehicle if you are stopped and don't have a valid driver's license.

Aimed at undocumented residents (referred to as illegal aliens in the initiative), it has a far greater reach. Here's the text on Initiative 300. [More...]

What if you left your wallet at home? Unless you have have "convincing corroborating identification," proof of insurance and a valid driver's license of record, your car will be impounded. If you have these things with you, you will get a summons and have ten days to bring your license to court. If you miss the ten days, your vehicle will be ordered impounded.

What if your license is expired? It gets impounded and you have 20 days to get it renewed. If your vehicle is impounded, you will have 30 days to post a $2,500. bond (and pay a $200.00 impound fee) to get it released. The city keeps the bond for a year, and if an unlicensed driver is found to operate your car, you lose the car and the bond.

Whose idea was this? Some guy named Daniel Hayes, who opposes undocumented residents and doesn't even live in Denver.

The Denver City Council has passed a resolution urging voters to reject it. For one thing, it will cost $1.6 million a year to enforce. Even the Mayor, police chiefs and county sheriffs oppose it. If you live in Denver, you need to vote. Vote No on Initiative 300.

Ethics Watch has followed Hayes' failed attempts to get the initiative on the ballot in Aurora and Lakewood. He spends thousands of dollars getting people to gather signatures.

It only took 3,472 signatures to make the Denver ballot. (Ruling here.)

Given the probable low turnout for this election, it's important to get the word out. If you have a mail-in ballot but forgot to send it in, you can still drop it off today at the County Clerk's office or vote in person at your designated voting place.

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 03 November 2009 11:30:15 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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Please join us TOMORROW for a live book chat with Craig Crawford, co-author of Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do. The chat will be held at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific.

Open thread below.

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Maine Question 1: Civil Marriage Equality in
Close Battle

post from Firedoglake on 03 November 2009 11:30:14 PM. © Firedoglake

It?s a tight race for civil equality in Maine. Per the Bangor Daily News, at 10:21 Maine time, 172 of 605 (28 %) of precincts have been reported.[...]

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Or Maybe Not So Tightening

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 November 2009 11:28:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

We've now got 76% of the vote in and Owens margin has increased a bit. Owens is now up by about 4,000. [...]

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 03 November 2009 11:26:27 PM. © Daily Kos

Riding the Diary Rescue streetcar tonight are watercarrier4diogenes, Blank Frank, HoosierDeb, ybruti, shayera, and jlms qkw, with YatPundit in the motorman's chair on a cool New Orleans night.

Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading.

The Rescues:

Altoid77 alerts us to the start of a fantastic event in Shameless Plug for Wildlife: Operation Migration 2009. (jlms qkw)

AKMask shares some fascinating information about the International Space Station and wonders But do the aliens steal wifi? (shayera)

There's a new film out about Joshua Heschel, the civil-rights rabbi who "looked like God." Kossack jmadlc55 has some thoughts on this remarkable man in Missing Someone You've Never Met. (Blank Frank)

citisven brings a really surprising and excellent edition of EcoJustice: Getting a taste of what it means to be Black to us, replete with some wonderful photography. (watercarrier4diogenes)

Timothy Karr warns that the FCC Fine Print Could Undermine an Open Internet. (ybruti)

Nuisance Industry takes us on a mindful walk down memory lane, starting One year ago. (HoosierDeb)

fake consultant describes the possible results of today's vote in WA state in On Closing The Deal, Or, Referendum 71 Polling Analyzed. (ybruti)

Avenging Angel points out that Cheney Turns to Sgt. Schultz Defense in Plame Case. (shayera)

rdbaker43 regales us with his recent adventure in BBC Arabic TV interviews Obamabot on the streets of D.C. (w/poll). (watercarrier4diogenes)

thereisnospoon deconstructs thought processes in Teabaggers: The Cult of the Silent Majority. (jlms qkw)

Max Udargo has an update to his recommended diary of a few weeks ago: his mom finally found a program to get some coverage for her health problems. But that's just one of the reasons he gives in Why I Just Contributed to Alan Grayson. (Blank Frank)

ElsieElsie provides a deeply personal look at Coming Out and Living Out: My Story and a Prayer. (watercarrier4diogenes)

BruceMcF provides the details on the (criminal?) shenanigans of our favorite ex-Australian in Is Rupert Murdoch Picking His Partner's Pockets ... (jlms qkw)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: November 2, 2009.

brillig has tonight's Top Comments - Election Night 2009 Edition.

Please join the Diary Rescue krewe this evening by suggesting your own rescues in this Open Thread.

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Tightening in NY-23

post from Talking Points Memo on 03 November 2009 11:24:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Hoffman seems to be gaining on Owens in New York 23rd. And it's looking like the number of absentee ballots will likely outnumber the margin between the two candidates by a substantial amount. It's starting to look like this might not be done tonight. [...]

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New York/Maine Results Thread

post from MyDD on 03 November 2009 11:21:47 PM. © MyDD

With three-quarters of the vote in up in New York, Democrat Bill Owens continues to lead. Marriage equality hanging in the balance in Maine, now trailing. New York 23 Bill Owens (D): 53,562 votes (49.1 percent) Doug Hoffman (C): 49,661 votes (45.5[...]

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Missing Sunspots Herald End of World

NOT!The same crackpots who are denying that global warming is caused by humans and who are claiming that the whole solar system is about to catch on fire have latched onto a significant but not unprecedented hiccup in the timing of the latest sunspot[...]

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NY-23: Too Close To Call - Or Is It

While there are still a lot of votes to be counted, Phillip Anderson at The Albany Project is calling NY-23:

With about 70% in, Owens lead continues to grow. Unless Hoffman has many thousands of votes stashed in the St Lawrence county districts where they are having machine problems, I just don't see how he beats Owens. Does Hoffman have a secret Watertown Palinite contingent? I doubt it.

I think the next Congressman from NY-23 is Bill Owens.

From his lips to fill-in-your-favorite-deity's ear.

If this holds, the teabaggers will be in full-blown meltdown and the Civil War within the Republican Party will officially begin.

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Owensmentum

There's been some back and forth in NY-23 over the course of the evening. But it's now at 2/3 of the vote in and Owens is up by a bit more than 3500 votes. Plus there's this: we've got this report from the Watertown Daily Times that there are four[...]

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