November 6, 2006
The Video Game Voters Network has issued an e-mail to its members this morning, urging them to vote in tomorrow's mid-term elections.The VGVN, which is owned and operated by the video game publishers' trade association, the ESA, did not endorse specific candidates in the e-mail, but placed the video game legislation issue front and center:
Video games have become a very easy target this election year for politicians at all levels of government, from local county executives to U.S. Senators, who want to blame society's problems on our favorite pastime.
We need to send a clear signal this Tuesday: video games are protected speech, afforded constitutional protection by the First Amendment. Our taxpayer time and money should be spent on the real issues affecting our country and taxpayers.
Comments
its funny one wants to burn them at the stake and the other wants to simply ban them in the hopes of getting votes.......neither of them seem to understand that what they are doing is against the law 0-o
Heh, ever tried to find political candidates that are pro-gay -and- pro-gun? I have other criteria but those two alone seem to eliminate 90+% of the field (politicians in this district are smart enough not to sound -too- anti-gun, but as far as I'm concerned "I support the laws on the books" is going entirely too far since there are plenty of laws on the books that are unconstitutional and should never have been passed).
Yes, that's quite a conundrum we're faced with. I think I'll hold my nose and go with the doubleplus-pro-gun anti-gay House candidate here. At least they're trying to go about it via the Constitution (which will hopefully fail) rather than ignoring it altogether like the anti-gunners.
Well, that, and, the Democrat challenger here has made game bannage a campaign issue. And he has a track record of looting the city treasury to fund no-bid contracts for giant, worthless projects. While he's not anti-gun, per se, but the idea of Nancy Pelosi as speaker and John Conyers as the chair of the judiciary committee is quite scary...
As it is, there will probably be tons of people who automatically equate censorship with super-religious Republicans, then run out and vote for Hillary and company thinking they'll save gaming. I cannot count the times I've seen that sentiment posted at sites not as politically inclined as GP.
Yes, I know Georgia is a state that GP is watching, but dont worry. Not too long ago they said He was favored to win with 60% or better of the vote. Also, it was raining all day today and even Democrats admit that rain tends to support Republican candidates (it's a statistical fact!). Take that little bit of information however you want.
@ illspirit
Agreed. Did you look at the elections GP is watching? While I admit I just skimmed it, it seemed like most of them were Democrats and that most of them were against gaming or for legislation. While it seems a few of the Repubilicans actually supported games, but not all.