Election Results: 2 BIG Questions

[Lauralyn]

1. To what degree did your personal spiritual practices & beliefs
guide your decision to vote and, if you did vote, your choices?

2. Reflecting on the election results, how does your religious
affiliation (= membership/ regular participation in a worship
community) and/or your personal spiritual practices & beliefs
interpret the outcome? Are you more hopeful about the immediate future
(= 2 years out), for example?

Let's have a conversation!

I cast the most unusual ballot of my life on Tuesday:
I voted for some because they were Democrats; others because they were
Republicans, still others because they were FEMALE incumbants running
without opposition; male judges running for re-election without
oppostion didn't get my votes; and, in 3 instances where the male
incumbants ran without opposition & I honnestly think I could probably
do a better job if (by some catastrophe) someone from the press saw my
name in the public records of this election and call me!

The prime values guiding my choices were: my zeal to prevent a former
congressman from our state -
Who QUIT
ouse seat in the (mistaken) belief that the House Ethics Committee
would then not make public their report on him calling for formal
hearings on ethics violations from becoming our governor

[Lauralyn]

This is what I get for trying to type at 4AM!!!
My pinky finger hit God-knows-what-key and the post got posted before
I'd finished!!

On Nov 4, 3:56 am, Lauralyn <lauralynbell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. To what degree did your personal spiritual practices & beliefs
> guide your decision to vote and, if you did vote, your choices?
>
> 2. Reflecting on the election results, how does your religious
> affiliation (= membership/ regular participation in a worship
> community) and/or your personal spiritual practices & beliefs
> interpret the outcome? Are you more hopeful about the immediate future
> (= 2 years out), for example?
>
> Let's have a conversation!
>
> I cast the most unusual ballot of my life on Tuesday:
> I voted for some because they were Democrats; others because they were
> Republicans, still others because they were FEMALE incumbants running
> without opposition; male judges running for re-election without
> oppostion didn't get my votes; and, in 3 instances where the male
> incumbants ran without opposition & I honnestly think I could probably
> do a better job if (by some catastrophe) someone from the press saw my
> name in the public records of this election and call me!
>
> The prime values guiding my choices were:

1. My zeal to prevent a former congressman from our state -
>    Who QUIT his House seat in the (mistaken) belief that the House Ethics Committee

> would then not make public their report on him calling for formal

> hearings on ethics violations -
from becoming our governor; aaaand,
2. My recognition that the Democratic Party has given up on my
county, as evidenced by their failure to run candidates for County
Commisioner positions (starting 20+ years ago), and having officials
who are supposed to represent our LOCAL interests voting with the
adjacent urban officials who use us as the source of tax revenue to be
spent in their districts! The only real democratic process in my part
of the state is which competing Republican candidates reflect a
commitment to responsible government that is committed to the
commonwealth, the Public good, our community as a whole.

For me, there is a complementary relationship between the political
concept of states as serving the commonwealth of their people - in the
most broad and Constitutional sense; as in, the Commonwealth of
Massachussetts; and, the Christian concept of the Beloved Community as
illustrated in the first chapters of The Book of the Acts of the
Apostles in the New Testament.

OK. Now it's your turn! ;-)