Comments on: Voting is too hard / Berkeley ballot silliness http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chris gilbert http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-789 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:39:18 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-789 re: local “foreign policy”. And how bout that time that Berkeley voted to divest from S. Africa, wasn’t that a hoot!

Or wait, something’s a coagulating in my mind … weren’t there those silly places a while back, up North, that done voted for those laws saying that you don’t got to return those stinking slaves if they done made it across the border. That was some protesting aginst a ‘foreign policy’, huh?

]]> By: chris gilbert http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-788 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:32:01 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-788 TJ’s is spreading some dust, but I think it’s a bit more powerful than the ‘pixie’ strain. It’s amazing what a brand name can do even in Berkeley. So we get a 5-story behemoth (too tall so needs a variance) at a busy two intersections with not enough parking (needs another variance), etc. Some dust! Then TJ’s decides it’s found a better place like the clothing chain that took the place of Edie’s on Shattuck and we’re stuck with a most likely really ugly building. (Stand along side Berkeley High, about at the new swimming pool and look at the new 3-4 story apartments next to the library and tell me that don’t look cheap and ugly.)

]]> By: Neil Berkman http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-787 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:05:47 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-787 Actually there’s pretty strong support for the Trader Joe’s:

http://www.kitchendemocracy.org/berkeley/trader_joes/

]]> By: Ken Norton http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-786 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:57:24 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-786 Ahh, Berkeley. The only city in America with a foreign policy.

And what’s with the opposition to Trader Joe’s, in particular because their alcohol is *too* affordable? That store spreads magical pixie dust on any neighborhood it occupies.

]]> By: John Roberts http://blog.chaddickerson.com/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-785 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:30:03 +0000 http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2006/11/04/voting-is-too-hard-berkeley-ballot-silliness/#comment-785 San Francisco had a similar city proposal, which I also rejected. Remarkable how painful voting is.

http://www.pencoyd.com/clock/2006/10/28/ninety-minutes-of-voting-not-enough/

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