Tell your kids to vote!

[Indyfan53]

Last edited Mon Mar 17, 2014, 11:04 AM - Edit history (1)

If you are a parent, and your children are registered to vote, tell them they need to take the midterm election seriously.

Many millenials, like myself, rely on the ACA. Whether it's on an exchange plan or on their parents' plan, the millenials need to realize they could lose their insurance if they don't vote this year.

So, sit down with your kids and tell them that every election matters, especially this one. Tell them to join you in heading to the polls.

Stay alert, stay active.

[frazzled]

1. I did ...

We have dinner with my twenty-something son and daughter-in-law every Sunday, and so last evening I was showing them the "cheat sheet" for tomorrow's primary elections I'd spent several hours working on that morning. There's a primary Tuesday? they asked. Sigh

Now, first, the excuse: They're expecting a first child in two weeks (and also in the midst of a job search), so they're kind of preoccupied. Normally they're pretty politically aware, but my son's first question was (a fairly informed) one asking, rhetorically, whether there were any important races being contested. Well, no, he's right about that: most of the top offices are either uncontested or dead certain anyway. (Governor Quinn and Dick Durbin will win their primaries.) But there are a ton of contested judicial races—something I hate, but felt compelled to research anyway. And there were some important races for Cook County Board that will make the difference between Toni Preckwinkel getting to enact her agenda or not. None of those races were on the ballot in my district, but they might be in theirs.

So, fine ... this isn't an important primary here. But I think you should flex your voting muscle regularly. Just make it a point to vote in every single election, bumf*@& or not. Then it becomes a habit, and you'll have skin in the game all the time. It's just something you do.

I'm sure my kids will vote in the general in November, but I wish they'd take even this boring primary a little seriously. I'm giving them a pass this time around.

[leftyohiolib]

2. we cant get parents to vote. ,"every election matters, especially this one". then why do so

many dems surrender their vote?

[Indyfan53]

3. The younger ones didn't vote in 2010.

This is assuming that the parents will vote.

[Gothmog]

4. Get out the vote

[otohara]

5. Many Are Under The Impression Rand Paul is Cool

So be sure to tell them Paul wants the feds to go after states who legalized weed.

Rand Paul backs bill that could lead to crack down on states where voters legalized weed
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/14/rand-paul-backs-bill-that-could-lead-to-crack-down-on-states-where-voters-legalized-weed/

On civil rights:

Redefining marriage leads to economic and moral problems. (Jun 2013)
No national law on same-sex marriage; leave it to states. (May 2013)
Let states decide same-sex marriage; don't federalize it. (Mar 2013)
Illegal to impose racial segregation in the private sector. (May 2010)
Opposes same-sex marriage. (Nov 2009)
Voted NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013)
Opposes affirmative action. (Aug 2010)
Supports Amendment to prevent same sex marriage. (Aug 2010)



His love of corporations:

Cut corporate tax in half to create millions of jobs. (Feb 2013)
Punishing the rich means the poor lose their jobs. (Aug 2012)
Obama's "You didn't build that" insults American workers. (Aug 2012)
Expand lending caps for credit unions to small business. (Mar 2012)
Rated 14% by UFCW, indicating a pro-management voting record. (May 2012)

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm#Civil_Rights

[FSogol]

6. We raised our kids not to trust glib-tongued conmen wearing ferret pelts on their head.

They think the Paul's are griftting scum.

(And they always vote).

[daybranch]

7. Talk to other parents as well and remind them to get the kids registrations up to date

when our people (young or old) move or marry registrations need to be changed to allow them to vote. Many people do not go to the polls because they know their registrations are not up to date and others are turned away. This is particular problem with rhe young.
You are also very correct in the importance of getting them to the polls. Working as a volunteer for democrats in 2010, it became very clear after seeing 4 or more consecutive votes with the same last name for the Teaparty candidate , what was going on and we all know how brutally effective that was for the Teaparty.
Lets help register our young and push them to vote!

[hamsterjill]

8. My daughter (age 30) votes!

I had her at the polls WITH me the first time there was an election after she turned 18.

I remember standing in line at the polling place and some people we knew came in behind us. Their daughter had also already turned 18 and was NOT with them. They made a comment about how they'd tried to get their daughter to vote and she wouldn't. I chuckled silently because they are known uber conservatives.

[grilled onions]

9. First We Need To Get Them To Care

They need to get their heads out of their cell phones, out of their video games and convince them they are the next generation. The parents, grandparents, will not always be there to help them out with a place to live,money when they run out. They need to see that they can help their own future by voting, by endorsing candidates. All candidates are not alike--they are not simply people from other generations. They need to see the importance of environmental issues, jobs, healthcare,shelter etc. Obviously schools do little in that dept.