The baseball writers who vote understand that won-loss record is a lazy way to measure pitching excellence.
We who seek your vote understand this commonality of experience and the willingness to engage; it will sit at the heart of our manifesto, be designed into all our policies, not designed out, and made real through a set of practical changes to which we are deeply committed.
Almost nobody voting understands this race anyway.
There also remains a disconnect between the rapidly growing community of boricuas and the candidates who are so eager for their votes yet understand little about their culture or priorities.
And I encourage all of those individuals who have the privilege and democratic right to vote, to understand the evidence presented by the IPCC today, to act in their personal lives and to vote responsibly.
Our theme this year is "defeat hate, vote". We understand the direct link between racial hatred and the power of fully engaging in this democracy through voting.
But the state appealed the ruling, and last June a state appeals court panel overturned it, ruling that the state's obligation was to provide an eighth-grade education, enough to allow students to vote and understand jury instructions, and to prepare them for low-level service jobs.
