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2010 Midterm Elections, or: Barnum Was Right
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Mostly because the behavior mentioned in the story is completely opposite of the way she portrays herself as a person and a candidate - even if they didn't have sex. She tries to come off as a strictly religious moral person, but in reality she's as human as any of us.
That said, it is kinda one of those non-story things. I don't care if she got drunk and naked in some dude's bed. Hey, if it had been me at that age I wouldn't have kicked her out either. Crazy, yeah, but she ain't bad lookin' either.
But then, I had a habit of hooking up with the crazy ones. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't worth all the drama.
And I'm not sure I would've posted about it "anonymously" on the internets years later when she was running for public office, because in the modern world of web-tubes, there is no such thing as "anonymous".
Steam, Planetside 2
My head just asploded!
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
What is the plan.
(unless I make one out of the GA peach)
fart on their heads
alternatively I could just wear a beret and leather jacket. People already cross the street when I'm walking around, they'd flip their shit if they thought I was an honest-to-goodness Black Panther.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
That's kinda tricky. You know what happens to people who oppose Sheriff Joe.
I would not be surprised in the slightest if deputies happened to inspect ballots while shaking someone down in the polling location.
Just right click save as on someone's avatar.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
One of his deputies took documents from a defendent's lawyer in a courtroom. I can totally see them refusing to let people vote for minor infractions.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
I like the right wing's idea of training poll watchers so much that I'd like to do something similar locally next election. Maybe get a bunch of big black dudes trained up and have them as poll watchers in white neighborhoods. I'm sure the Republicans would be the first to jump to defend my effort to ensure the integrity of our elections.
I'm semi-serious about this...
Oh man, Michael Clarke Duncan there, all protecting people's right to vote. "Admit it, you find me imposing."
You know the open carry restrictions in California that the teepers love to bitch about? You know who put them in place?
Reagan, when hw was governor in the 70s. Now, you know why he put them in place?
Because the Black Panthers (the real ones, not the whackjobs trying to call themselves that today) decided to openly carry firearms, as they were allowed to at that time.
You know, this makes me think that we could use the knee-jerk stupidity of the right wing against them, given the right stimulus. I bet that if we did the voter integrity/intimidation campaign the same way the right wing is doing it, they'd start pushing for restricting the poll watchers and changing how close people could be to a polling station.
Call the United States Attorney assigned to Arizona, alert them to the existence of the flier, and ask where you should send a copy. Arizona is one of the jurisdictions covered by section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Attorney General is authorized to direct that the Director of the Office of Personnel Management assign Federal election observers to any such jurisdiction after receiving meritorious complaints that any attempt under color of law to deny franchise on the grounds of race or color is likely to occur.
Jimmy Carter:
It's not voter suppression! We just want to insure the integrity of the voting process.
Seriously, though, we could bitch about their tactics and wait (possibly forever) for laws to clamp down on them. Or we could give them a taste of their own medicine and give them motivation to do what we want more expeditiously. I could care less about suppressing white voters, and more than anything I'd like to win by simply being right and convincing people that we're right. But I'm not above putting scare tactics towards a productive end. The other side certainly isn't squeamish about doing it, and we do ourselves and our causes a disservice by letting them have that advantage.
And that was when the U.S. attorney was a Bush appointee. The one there now is an Obama appointee.
Even better if it's to mirror and defeat the tactics of an opposing faction.
Come on man, get real! Who is going to maintain this list you propose? Pie-in-the-sky, man!
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
At what point does it become a race to the bottom? It's not that I don't like the idea of Democrats acting tough for once. I don't like the idea of mutually assured destruction being both party's main platform.
Rigorous Scholarship
It's because it was a section 5 state. That would be the deep south.
What Couscous said. Politics isn't a gentlemen's game and we shouldn't act like civility and good faith are the default positions in our political discourse when history demonstrates that these things are only observed when it's convenient and doesn't confer a disadvantage on political entities.
Also, ModernMan, you're clearly not poor or a minority. I'm a black dude with no record and living a comfortably middle class lifestyle, and am acquainted with local a police officer. I am still very wary around police because that's how we (black people) are taught to treat interactions with police.
Rigorous Scholarship
You must not live in the South.
There are still neighborhoods in New York City where the streets get eerily absent if a cop car drives through.
I suspect the same is true in other urban centers. Just because you don't personally see it...
Especially in 2010. A stopped police car outside a polling station in Arizona...
Dude, it is Sheriff Joe. That is his whole thing.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
Because everyone knows that during the intervening 40 years, the negative interactions between police and minorities has decrease drastically. Drawing such a conclusion is crazy talk.
Heck, I'm a Republican in DC, which is a one-party state. And if there was a police force to be scared of, it would be the DC PD. But I've never given any thought to whether a police office near a polling place is trying to intimidate me. It just strikes me as paranoia.
Rigorous Scholarship
DC is not the south. at all. It's very much northeastern.
Seeing a police officer in many places in Chicago means that bad shit is going down and you want to get the hell out of there because that is the one of the few reasons that they would be coming into that area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth_County,_Georgia#Marches_and_demonstrations_of_1980s