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Separate names with a comma.I am one of the thousands who took time away from work and my family to spend hours in Annapolis on Feb. 6 to attend the rally in opposition to Senate Bill 281 and the Senate committee hearing on the same proposal ("Opinions differ on Md. gun controls," Feb. 7).
I was appalled when at 9 p.m., the committee stated that it would no longer listen to the testimony of the hundreds who had waited all day and followed the necessary protocol to be heard. The committee would only hear the individual's name, place of residence, and if for or against the bill. Even before 9, members of the committee where calling citizens "chicken" and speaking over those who were giving professional testimony. This is an insult to every single one of those individuals' time, effort, and opinions. I find it deeply disturbing that the individuals who are elected and paid by the people could not respect the public. They should have listened politely and they should have sat in their chairs until every last one of their constituents, who were not being paid to be there, had their full say.
I urge our state, its citizens and its politicians, to not support this bill or any of its companion bills. This legislation will not solve the problem of gun violence. It will not keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. It will only give criminals more confidence in knowing that the opposition to them will be minimized.
Specifically, I strongly oppose the licensing portion of this bill. It is essentially a poll tax that will violate the civil rights of all and it will limit lower-income families from exercising their Second Amendment rights. Maryland already has a record of every firearm purchased in the state. Licensing will not give the state added information and will not keep those who are already obtaining guns illegally from obtaining them. Additionally, how exactly is an individual supposed to demonstrate "proficiency and use" of a firearm, which is required in order to obtain a license, if they are not able to rent or own a gun before obtaining that license?
Maryland legislators are acting to limit the penalties for criminals (witness the current push to abolish the death penalty) at the same time they are attempting to pass gun legislation that will not harm the criminal but the law-abiding citizen. This truly is contradictory. If the goal is to make Maryland safer, they should pass legislation that will create mandatory sentences for crimes committed with a firearm and for those who assist individuals in obtaining the firearm illegally. Let's crack down on the criminal, not the law-abiding citizens who only wish to exercise their constitutional rights.
It is the responsibility of all of us to speak out and let their representatives know how we feel. Please do not become complacent and think that others will speak for you. We must show our representatives that opposition to this bill and any companion bill is very strong. The fight for Second Amendment rights will not stop. Please protect your rights and oppose this bill.PUBLISHED: September 18, 2019 at 9:41 a.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2019 at 12:09 p.m.
Broomfield Clerk and Recorder officials held a drawing for ballot positions of city council and mayoral candidates earlier this month.
About half a dozen Broomfield candidates attended the drawing, which had City and County Clerk Jennifer Robinson pulling names from a hat held by Elections Operations Coordinator Penny Norman.
“I think it’s a more fair way to look at it than just alphabetical,” Elections Manager Todd Davidson said.
Laws requires a lot drawing for ballot order, but does not specify how. Some municipalities draw straws; others pull high/low cards.
Entities that certify their ballots, such as school districts, do their own lot drawings. State and federal officials likewise draw for candidates at those levels.
The drawing was announced to all candidates and lasted about five minutes. Names on slips of paper were shown to those in attendance before they went into the hat and then were shown after they were pulled out.
There is an advantage to being listed first on the ballot, according to an article by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, which describes itself as the nation’s pre-eminent institution for the study and promotion of civic education and political participation.
“Voters who do not have well-defined choices prior to voting appear to latch onto the first name on the ballot for each office, a phenomenon we might call ‘first-listing bias,'” according to the research, referencing election day voting.
That conclusion may not apply to absentee and mail ballot voters since people can take their time at home and do more research on candidates before filling out the ballot.
Broomfield’s first campaign finance report is due 21 days before the Nov. 5 election, which falls on Oct. 15 this year. A second round is due again Nov. 1, then Dec. 5. If a candidate chooses to keep their committee open – in the event that they win and wish to collect for a second term run for office – they can do so.
On Oct. 3, the elections division will perform accuracy testing at the Zang Spur/Bal Swan conference room at the George DiCiero City & County Building.
Every registered voter will get a mail ballot. A voter service and polling center will be open eight days prior to the election at the city building starting Oct. 28. If a voter needs to update their information, they can do so online at broomfield.org/elections.
Ballots will be mailed Friday, Oct. 11, and are expected to reach registered voters the week of the 14th.
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Python documentation error
username_0: I believe you have accidentally copied the Scala syntax into the Python code examples,e.g.:
df.write \
 .format("com.databricks.spark.redshift")
 .option("url", "jdbc:redshift://redshifthost:5439/database?user=username&password=pass") \
 .option("dbtable" -> "my_table_copy") \
 .option("tempdir" -> "s3://path/for/temp/data") \
 .mode("error")
 .save()
Presumably, all of the -> should be replaced with =, and the quotes on the assignment removed, i.e.:
df.write \
 .format("com.databricks.spark.redshift")
 .option("url", "jdbc:redshift://redshifthost:5439/database?user=username&password=pass") \
 .option("dbtable"="my_table_copy") \
 .option("tempdir"="s3://path/for/temp/data") \
 .mode("error")
 .save()

However, this doesn't quite work either; it returns the error "option() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dbtable'" instead.
<issue_comment>username_1: Here's the correct syntax:

```python
df.write \
 .format("com.databricks.spark.redshift")
 .option("url", "jdbc:redshift://redshifthost:5439/database?user=username&password=pass") \
 .option("dbtable", "my_table_copy") \
 .option("tempdir", "s3://path/for/temp/data") \
 .mode("error")
 .save()
```

There's a fix for this as part of another PR that hasn't been merged yet. I'll just push these fixes as a separate commit.
<issue_comment>username_0: Thanks; this resolves the error, although I promptly hit "Failed to load class for data source: com.databricks.spark.redshift" right afterwards.  This may be because I'm missing a dependency.
<issue_comment>username_1: How did you add `spark-redshift` to your Spark environment?

Try using the `--packages` spark-submit option, e.g.

```
$SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark --packages databricks:spark-redshift:0.4.0-hadoop2
```
<issue_comment>username_1: Oh, I just realized that you're probably building your own version off of master since you're trying to use the save feature.

In this case, try publishing locally using SBT, then update the version to `0.4.1-SNAPSHOT` in your `--packages` command.
<issue_comment>username_0: No, I was using the command you suggested.
<issue_comment>username_1: To clarify: you need to add this library as a dependency to your job. There are instructions at http://spark-packages.org/package/databricks/spark-redshift; this is what I was asking about.
<issue_comment>username_0: More specifically, I am currently initializing the shell as follows
```unix
pyspark --packages