About the Dad Guide

History

The Dad Guide started as a way for family members in college (or overseas) to receive election information about State and Local measures and races. It has since snowballed as people began to ask for the email to be fowarded to them so they could read the insightful political commentary (or at least the humorous barbs).

Oh boy, here we go again with dumb, wasteful, confusing initiatives that have no business being on the ballot. The initiative process is profoundly anti-democratic (that’s a lowercase d), and it allows the Legislature off the hook and invites mercenary interests in to distort representative government. We need an initiative to ban initiatives!

If you agree with this, then the Dad Guide is the election guide for you.

Rules

The Dad Guide is basically the application of a very basic set of rules. These rules are used to make quick election decisions aithout having to be super knowledgeable about the issues.

My rules of thumb for deciding on propositions is to vote against those with arguments with lots of UPPER CASE words and lots of exclamation points! And when both pro and con are like that, pick the one with the lesser amount. See who signs the arguments. Be wary of measures endorsed mostly by groups that sound like “taxpayers rights,” police unions, and business associations.

These guidelines are the essence of the Dad Guide. The rules page has these and other guidelines which have been developed over the life of the guide.

Help

The icons used in the Dad Guide *should* be self-explanatory (especially for those intelligent enough to seek out the Dad Guide) but people always surprise:

this image signifies a yes vote:
this image signifies a no vote:

Enjoy reading the rest of the Dad Guide. Have fun filling out your ballot!

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