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Did I vote for Orly Taitz?

Travis

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So did I?
That's right it was election day here in California.

I mean her name was right there at the top of the ballot.
She is only perhaps the most famous of the active birther idiots.
It's not like being a Senator is a position of importance or anything.


No, of course I didn't.


I also voted no on a new cigarette tax and I voted to extend our legislation term limits from eight years to twelves.
 
Yeah, that's kind of spooky.

Protest vote maybe?

Also it's open to everyone so maybe people in other parties are screwing around?
 
Travis said:
Yeah, that's kind of spooky.

Protest vote maybe?

Also it's open to everyone so maybe people in other parties are screwing around?
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Name recognition. She has nothing by way of a political platform (other than "IMPEACH OBAMA!!!!!!!!!1111111") nor does she have anything remotely resembling a campaign organisation. She made a couple of appearances at some GOP events, but her time has mostly been spent asking her followers to spam various online polls and vote for her.

On the plus side, she forgot to file her campaign finances with the FEC, so she's looking at a fine from that angle. Which I'm sure will please her, as she will consider it standing to sue Obama :rolleyes:
 
Of course, what's scarier is that one of the birther lawyers is engaged in a too close to call battle to be elected judge in the San Diego superior court:

GARLAND PEED 50.14% 120,683 Votes

GARY GEORGE KREEP 49.86% 120,008 Votes

IIRC Gary Kreep belongs to the Vattel school of birfers, who argue that you have to have two citizen parents to be a natural born citizen.
 
Hmmm Peed or Kreep? Either one is fodder for some jokes at their surnames expense... I cannot decide which one is better though. I suppose if Peed won you could say that Kreep got Peed on but then again if Kreep won that you could say that it's no wonder because nobody likes the smell of Peed on Kreeps.

So hard to choose...
 
Kreep won by 56 votes. Not sure if there are automatic recount procedures when it's that close.

A sad day for the judiciary in San Diego.
 
KDLarsen said:
Kreep won by 56 votes. Not sure if there are automatic recount procedures when it's that close.
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I would think that there was and Peed would probably ask for(and get) one anyway with it being that close (less than 1%)
 
I'm partially stunned, partially left scratching my head. How on earth could that race been so close?
JUDICIAL SEAT NO. 34

Candidate: Gary Kreep

Experience: Attorney in private practice. Kreep also is executive director of the United States Justice Foundation, a conservative legal group he co-founded more than 30 years ago.

County bar rating: Lacking qualifications.

Candidate: Garland Peed

Experience: Deputy district attorney for 27 years. Peed also has worked as a lawyer for indigent defendants. He is chief of the district attorney’s San Diego Superior Court Division.

County bar rating: Well qualified.

Endorsements: Labor unions for San Diego police and the county sheriff’s deputies; San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders; Sheriff Bill Gore; District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a San Diego mayoral candidate; and retired Judge Frank Brown, whose seat he is running to fill.
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Sam.I.Am said:
Hmmm Peed or Kreep? Either one is fodder for some jokes at their surnames expense... I cannot decide which one is better though. I suppose if Peed won you could say that Kreep got Peed on but then again if Kreep won that you could say that it's no wonder because nobody likes the smell of Peed on Kreeps.

So hard to choose...
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What an immature and juvenile post!



I thought the same thing.
 
KDLarsen said:
I'm partially stunned, partially left scratching my head. How on earth could that race been so close?
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Because nobody pays attention to judicial races and is probably seeing the names for the first time printed on the ballot, so they just go by if they like the name. And it's close because let's face it, both have funny names! :p
 
Puppycow said:
Low information voters.
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Which is 99% of the voters when it comes to judicial candidates, especially in a party primary.

There's dozens of these races on the ballot where I live, I doubt many people carry the bar assn. list with them. I figure they're all just somebody somebody (-cough- Mike Madigan) sent, which is why I vote "no" across the board when it comes to retention. :p
 
I did not vote for Orly Taitz. I did vote for Ducky:

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I also voted no on a new cigarette tax...
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California is very anti smoking. I believe it is the second lowest smoker state, next only to Utah and the Mormons. I'm just curious why anyone would vote no on a tax that would raise a lot of money for cancer research in your state.
 
Big Tobacco spent millions and millions telling us:

OH NOES!!! THE MONIES WON'T BE SPENT IN CALIFORNIA!!!

The pro side didn't push back as hard as they could've, IMO.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Big Tobacco spent millions and millions telling us:

OH NOES!!! THE MONIES WON'T BE SPENT IN CALIFORNIA!!!

The pro side didn't push back as hard as they could've, IMO.
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50 million, is what I heard. Even more than it took to keep Walker in office. Just a short while ago, it seems that 67% were in favor of the tax, and after the tobacco companies did their magic, it is now 50-50, from what I hear. What's happening to politics?
 
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