Election 2012

What’s your voting plan for tomorrow? Do you know where you vote? Will you vote before or after work? Do you have plans for child care or are you taking your children with you? Will you have a copy of MEA’s recommended candidates with you? Are you allowing yourself enough time to read and mark the entire ballot?

We’re all busy, but having a plan to vote means you’ll be more likely to actually go to the polls and cast your ballot. Be an informed voter. Take a voter guide with you to make sure you know which candidates and which ballot proposals support working families. Using a guide will also save you time.

The Michigan League of Responsible Voters is dedicated to educating voters with the most updated election information. On their website, www.leagueofresponsiblevoters.org, you can download a practical guide to the ballot proposals that provides background information on each proposal, explains what each proposal does, lists those groups both supporting and opposing the proposal, and the League’s recommendations.

For a listing of MEA recommendations for federal, state and local races and to find your polling location, log in to the Members Only area. 

We’ve said for months this election is critical -- who gets elected matters and the decisions are all up to you. Vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6!

We have only six more days left to make a difference and shift the anti-worker, anti-union, anti-middle class course this state and this country is on. Because the other side is using the deep pockets of corporate special interests, they can outspend us--but they can't "out-people" us.

Proponents of Proposal 5 are trying to push a rosy story about their constitutional amendment, which would require a 2/3 supermajority of the House and the Senate or a statewide vote of the people in order to raise taxes.  While that would make it harder to raise taxes, it would also allow for a minority of lawmakers to block needed funding for schools and public safety, while protecting the latest round of corporate special interest tax breaks.

The first Presidential debate of Election 2012 is Wed., Oct. 3. The University of Denver will be hosting President Obama and Mitt Romney debating the issue of domestic policy. The moderator is Jim Lehrer, host of PBS “News Hour.”

President Obama and Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, provided their detailed plans for education yesterday on NBC's "Education Nation" running this week in New York.