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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
The conspiracy to keep Florida’s 16 district voters uninformed
Democrats are not happy that the State Department recently sent an email advisory via US embassies to US citizens living abroad that a vote in Florida’s 16th Congressional district for Mark Foley is not actually a vote for Foley, but the guy the GOP has named to replace him: Joe Negron. Via the Miami Herald:
Just in case any American on Earth [what's with the snarky bit about 'any American on Earth'? --ST] hasn’t heard about the Mark Foley sex scandal, the State Department sent an e-mail advisory Tuesday to U.S. citizens in Iraq alerting them of the congressman’s resignation.
The message went out to all citizens registered at the U.S. Consul in Baghdad — and possibly in other countries — reminding them that, if they are Florida voters who live in the 16th Congressional District, a vote for Foley is actually a vote for his Republican replacement, state Rep. Joe Negron.
”Foley’s name will remain on the ballot for both absentee and regular ballots,” the e-mail reads. “Any votes cast for Foley will count toward the total of the substitute candidate.”
Officials from the campaign for Negron’s Democratic challenger, Tim Mahoney, are livid over the correspondence, saying it is a Republican ploy to maintain the GOP stronghold in Congress.
”Here they go again — Karl Rove and his crowd are interfering with another Florida election,” said Charles Halloran, a spokesman for the Mahoney campaign.
But Negron scoffs at those accusations, saying it is only fair that absentee voters overseas be informed of the unusual twist in the election to fill the district seat.
”It’s important that people — all over — know how their vote is going to be counted,” he said. “Their votes are just as important as our votes.”
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A legal battle is under way over election procedures. Today, the Florida Democratic Party is scheduled to be in court in Tallahassee to try to stop elections officials from posting signs in polling places alerting voters that a vote for Foley means a vote for Negron. Under state law, Foley’s name will stay on the ballot.
Because of the confusion, the U.S. Department of Defense Federal Voting Assistance Program, which educates American voters worldwide of their right to vote, issued a news release Monday explaining Foley’s resignation.
It’s understandable why the Dems would be upset. I mean, what better way to snag some votes than to keep voters in their district uninformed?
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Not that it really matters, I’m sure the Democrats, in their drive to respect “democracy,” will have all those absentee military ballots thrown out on technicalities just like they did or tried to do with all military ballots in the last election. They’ll bend over backwards to allow the dead and illegal immigrants and felons to vote, but a military man or woman, no way, can’t have them voting!
The Democrats learned everything they need to know about democracy from watching the old Politburo and Soviet style one candidate per office ballots.
The sad and sickening part is that, as in the long list of recent history (view ST’s archives for those just waking up) demonstrating their commitment to hypocrisy, this would not have been an issue if Foley was a Dhimmicrat.
It’s understandable why the Dems would be upset. I mean, what better way to snag some votes than to keep voters in their district uninformed?
But Sis…uninformed voters are the backbone of the donk party. How long do you think the modern Democrat party would last if the voters all came to the polls with a good grasp of things like economics, the Constitution, and foreign policy? They might not even win a House seat in Massachusetts!
Want another example of the Dems relying on confused voters? My South Jersey congressional district is one of the remaining “red” districts in the state. The Congressman for years has been Jim Saxton (R-NJ), who has a pretty fair record and always wins comfortably. So this year, the Dems went out and recruited a fellow by the name of Sexton to run against him. This is no joke…they’re hoping that enough voters pull the wrong lever to put them over the top! Here’s the story.
Thats like calling the kettle black or whatever ….
SHUT UP MOONBATS.
It’s illegal to “campaign” inside a polling place. The court made the correct call in refusing to allow the name of a candidate to be displayed in the polling place. What’s the problem with that?