{"id":8158,"date":"2022-11-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=8158"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:42:10","slug":"pirate-suggestions-on-the-ballot-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/07\/pirate-suggestions-on-the-ballot-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Suggestions on the Ballot Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We held a poll of our members about their thoughts on the ballot questions for Tuesday&#8217;s election. The results are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Question 1: Yes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 2: Yes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 3: No\/None of the Above<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Question 4: Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We discussed the results of the survey on yesterday&#8217;s Pirate News. Informally we also discussed the constitutional office elections. If you can vote third party, please consider doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some ballots include non-binding positions for local State Rep\/Senate. Two we have seen are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Replacing our current for-profit medical insurance with a single-payer system;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Making all votes by legislators public.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe in government transparency and making the votes of legislators public is part of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our position is that health care is a human right and everyone should have access to it. Single payer is one tool in that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can listen to our thoughts on the 2022 election as well as the recent layoffs at Meta and Twitter at yesterday&#8217;s Pirate News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHcf8KnDbZQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We held a poll of our members about their thoughts on the ballot questions for Tuesday&#8217;s election. 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