I’m still likely to change my registration to Green before November anyway.

I think Speier will be an excellent, determined, strong Lieutenant Governor, and she has been a “star” in the legislature. The one ad I saw from her campaign was very strong and effective without being negative. And the fact that the environmental groups endorsed her as well as Garamendi meant that this was not really a factor.

I think there is something to be said for Ampersand’s idea of preferring minority voices (and in politics the women’s voice is a minority one, look at the statistics on women’s representation at any level). I don’t take it as a moral imperative, as I’m kind of souring on the idea of moral imperatives — that’s a long story and one which detours through the Balkans. But it represents my wish that everyone be represented and part of the social dialogue, which is part of my vision of the world which I want to see emerge. So I used the Ampersand principle in voting for County Democratic Party Committee, where there isn’t a lot of information about the candidates anyway.

So Speier it is — not solely for being female but very much because she seems young and “hungry” (ambitious, strongwilled, outspoken). With Speier and Deborah Bowen in the state capital and retaining Feinstein and Boxer in the US capitol, we will be known as the state of strong women. Not a bad thing, actually, at all.

But I am sorry I misconstrued what Kyle was saying, and I apologize.

And in the end, once again, any of the three candidates would make terrific LGs.

I imagine Kyle probably resents the hell out of your little shell game, where you pretend his argument “you should vote for Speier because she’s better on women’s issues” was really “you should vote for a woman”.

So why should progressives be sexblind or colorblind in the voting booth?