2016 Elections

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From BoldProgressives.org:

"If we lose the Senate, do you know who becomes the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee? A guy named Bernie Sanders. You ever heard of him?"

That's what Paul Ryan said the other day. He's right, and Bernie Sanders as a powerful committee chair sounds AWESOME.

But Ryan forgot to mention a few other things that would happen. Bold progressive Sherrod Brown is poised to take over the Banking Committee -- hauling in Wall Street CEO's to be held accountable.

Elizabeth Warren is a member of Democratic leadership and would have new ability to help mold the Senate agenda. She'd also become chair of a key Banking subcommittee, giving her for the power to hold her own hearings. No wonder Paul Ryan is freaking out....

Democrats need to win at least four seats to take back control.

Polls are within the margin of error in North Carolina, Nevada, and New Hampshire -- all places we have local organizers. A recent poll shows Russ Feingold up by just 2% in Wisconsin.

The next 19 days will decide whether Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and others get lots of new power.

Imagine Elizabeth Warren with more ability to grill corporate CEOs. (It might break the Internet!) Imagine Democrats being able to bring bills on debt-free college, expanding Social Security, and Wall Street reform to the floor.

That might be Paul Ryan's worst nightmare, but it's a dream come true for the rest of us....

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Searched on "leave Paul Ryan alone", was not disappointed.

[billy.pilgrim]

In 2000 jebber hired repug texas firm to remove tens of thousands from the florida voter roles if the names "appeared" to match felons and other undesirables (black folk) and give us the disaster that was lil bush.

The tea bag Scott administration has said that they will not consider as valid mail in and early voting where the signature doesn't match the one on file.

My Mom is bedridden and her current signature is chicken scratch and nothing like what is on file. For that matter, my signature is quite different from what it was 36 years ago when I registered to vote

Is the man who stole billions from medicare to finance buying the governorship going to illegally give florida to thumper

He is setting it up to do so.

[O Really]

I think the signature match deal was struck down in court.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... ee-ballots

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I switched from signing my full first name to just my initial and last name a few years ago. It surprised me a little that no commercial or government entity ever questioned it.

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Trump vs. Hillary vs. Johnson vs. Stein, I kinda don't blame him:

Tom Hayden, famed 1960s anti-war activist (and much more), dies at 76

RIP, you always had my respect.

[O Really]

I switched from signing my full first name to just my initial and last name a few years ago. It surprised me a little that no commercial or government entity ever questioned it.

I think signature checkers must use a pretty wide lattitude. It's amazing to me that anybody accepts the finger signatures on things like the card reader at a store or done on a tablet. Clearly the purpose of Scott's rule in Florida was to make it easier to disqualify "undesirable" voters.

[billy.pilgrim]

I think the signature match deal was struck down in court.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... ee-ballots

Thanks, I had not seen that. I'll still wait and vote on the 8th as I don't trust anything that lYing sack of shit tea bag governor says.
I will send mom's in

[O Really]

In NC you can take your absentee ballot to the election office in person and have them verify everything is in order before you leave it. I suspect if they'd thought of asking Scott, they'd have made it mail-in only also so that they could toss it out without getting caught. But I figure since Trump says it's so easy and so common, Lady O and I should be able to manage to vote in NC via absentee ballot (done), then go to the polls and vote in person before they find the absentee ballot, then do a mail-in and in person in Florida - make the most use of our voting rights!
(note to NSA - just kidding, you know me)

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... (note to NSA ... you know me)

Duh.

[billy.pilgrim]

I think the signature match deal was struck down in court.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... ee-ballots

They didn't tell escambia county, or Bloomberg missed the whole story.

I just got off the phone with the election office. They assured me that any vote where the signature doesn't match completely will be counted after they are
1st rejected and
a letter is mailed out requesting valid ID and a notarized affidavit swearing to the incorrect signature
The ID and affidavit are returned
and submitted for counting (after the election)


Scott is a crook and a PoS

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In NC you can take your absentee ballot to the election office in person and have them verify everything is in order before you leave it.

Also, Walker isn't likely to contest absentee ballots form seniors. They're more likely to vote Republican.

Heck, in the 2000 election in Florida there was an incident where the inhabitants of entire rest home had voted 100% for one candidate via absentee ballots. Even though *none* of those residents interviewed by ABC had actually requested an absentee ballot.

[O Really]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... orida.html

More than 100,000 voters registered during the time time Scott would have prevented it after the hurricane. Just as Scott feared.

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House Republicans Are Pumped to Badger Hillary Clinton With 'Years' Of Hearings After She's Elected

Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz is chair of the House Oversight Committee, which spent last fall yelling at Planned Parenthood for a variety of non-existent crimes.
[...]
"Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years worth of material already lined up."
[...]
Forget that the FBI has recommended no criminal charges against Clinton on her damn emails, and forget that the House keeps “investigating” Benghazi without finding any evidence she did anything wrong—we have a clusterfuck to create.

And of course prominent Republicans are already - weeks before the election, months before taking power - demanding and planning impeachment.

Your tax dollars at work.

[billy.pilgrim]

I think the signature match deal was struck down in court.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... ee-ballots

They didn't tell escambia county, or Bloomberg missed the whole story.

I just got off the phone with the election office. They assured me that any vote where the signature doesn't match completely will be counted after they are
1st rejected and
a letter is mailed out requesting valid ID and a notarized affidavit swearing to the incorrect signature
The ID and affidavit are returned
and submitted for counting (after the election)


Scott is a crook and a PoS

Updated

Florida was poised to throw away any ballots the election officials deemed different from the one on file (interestingly they return unsigned ballots and request a signature) when the judge bitch slapped state officials. Now they will begrudgingly return the ballots they determined don't match.

At least I'll know if her vote was counted, or not.

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...when the judge bitch slapped state officials.

Point of order: I believe that when a judge does it, the term is "benchslapped."

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Pence's plane skids off runway at New York airport, no injuries

"skids off runway" is the perfect metaphor, Mike.

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GOP spreads blame for Obamacare on Cooper

... This new spot is paid for by the Republican Governors Association. It criticizes Cooper for not fighting against the Affordable Care Act, which is generally supported by Democratic politicians.



The ad features testimonials from several women saying families are struggling with health-care costs. The women were also in the previous RGA TV ad, which hit Cooper over problems with the State Crime Lab....

Republican Governors Association
To: info@rga.org

Subject: Dishonest bastards.

The ACA challenge failed. Cooper did what a competent, wise, prescient or lucky AG should have done, regardless of politics, and those fake women with their fake struggling families would have been worse off by their share of the state money that he wasted on a losing cause.

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It Turns Out It’s ‘Unbiblical’ For A Woman To Be President. Sorry!

... But let’s be clear, dudes falling down on the job does not justify turning things over to a woman, the (Christian News) paper concludes, because a woman’s first duty is to take care of the house and kids and stand by her man.

“Yet the general scriptural rule still stands,” asserts the newspaper. “A woman’s highest calling is in the home and the greatest women in history are mothers who raised God-fearing children and supported the work of their husbands.”

Elsewhere, the paper reprints a 1990 column by a man named John M. Drickamer, who observes, “If a wife is supposed to be subordinate to her husband ‘in everything’ (Ephesians 5:24), then she is not supposed to rule him in government, on the job, etc. All such authority by women over men tends to or directly does militate against the woman’s subordination in the family. And the family is the basic unit within the state.”

Drickamer adds, “Many people will think I am being outrageous here. … But feminism has so dominated current thought that most people today have forgotten the real facts of history – and have ignored the real facts of their own experience – that it is better for everyone to have strong families, in good order, with responsible husbands and obedient wives.” ...

Damn straight, put a "Johnson" in the WH!

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